Shantipur (disambiguation)

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Shantipur or Santipur is a city and a municipality in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Shantipur is a city and a municipality in Ranaghat subdivision of Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. This small town has been declared a city recently. The fort area of this city, also known as Daak-Gharh is thought to have been built by Raja Krishnachandra of Nadia. Babla is one of famous place for pilgrims. Rasjatra is a famous festival of Shantipur town. The city is famous for having numerous social and cultural organizations and also local newspaper. Among them Alokpat, Santipur Science Club,"Samajer Pratichhabi",Protibadi Chetona, Nadiar Jugobarta and Santipur Biborton are famous.

Nadia district is a district in the state of West Bengal, in eastern India. It borders Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Purba Bardhaman to the west, and Murshidabad to the north.

West Bengal is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal. With over 91 million inhabitants, it is India's fourth-most populous state. It has an area of 88,752 km² (34,267 sq mi). A part of the ethno-linguistic Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata (Calcutta), the seventh-largest city in India. As for geography, West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, and the coastal Sundarbans. The main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.

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India

Santipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency), the assembly constituency of Shantipur, West Bengal
Santipur (community development block), an administrative division in Ranaghat subdivision of Nadia district in West Bengal
Santipur, Guwahati, a locality in Guwahati near the south bank of the river Brahmaputra

Santipur is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Santipur is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Ranaghat subdivision of Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Santipur is a locality in Guwahati near the south bank of the river Brahmaputra.It is near Bharalumukh and has a beautiful view of the hill side.Zip code is 781009.There are Temples,Namghar and Mosque located in the area. Santipur is well recognised for Pragjyotish College.

Nepal

Shantipur is a village development committee in Dhanusa District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,007 persons living in 674 individual households.

Shantipur is a village and municipality in Gulmi District in the Lumbini Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1855 persons living in 364 individual households.

Shantipur is a town and Village Development Committee in Ilam District in the Mechi Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,094 persons living in 754 individual households.

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