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Waria | |
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neighbourhood | |
 Waria railway station platform | |
  Waria Location in West Bengal, India  Waria Waria (India) | |
| Coordinates: 23°32′20″N87°14′47″E / 23.538809°N 87.246526°E Coordinates: 23°32′20″N87°14′47″E / 23.538809°N 87.246526°E | |
| Country |  |
| State | West Bengal |
| Government | |
| • Body | Durgapur Municipal Corporation |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali, English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 713203, 713207 |
| Telephone code | 0343 |
| Vehicle registration | WB-39, WB-40 |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Barddhaman-Durgapur |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Durgapur Paschim |
| Civic agency | Durgapur Municipal Corporation |
| Climate | hot and breezy (Köppen) |
| Website | wb |
Waria is a locality in Durgapur of West Bengal, India. It is located between the neighbourhoods of Mayabazar and Andal. The river Damodar flows to its south. The Durgapur Steel Plant and the Durgapur Thermal Power Station of the Damodar Valley Corporation are close to the Waria railway station. [1]
Durgapur is a metropolitan city and a municipal corporation in Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Durgapur is the 3rd largest urban agglomeration after Kolkata and Asansol in West Bengal and happens to be the 2nd planned city in India after Chandigarh. Durgapur was planned by two American Architects- Joseph Allen Stein and Benjamin Polk in 1955. It is the only city in Eastern India to have an operational dry dock.
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India along the Bay of Bengal. With over 91 million inhabitants, it is India's fourth-most populous state. West Bengal is the thirteenth-largest Indian state, with an area of 88,752 km2 (34,267 sq mi). 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, and center of the third-largest metropolitan area in the country. West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, and the coastal Sundarbans. The main ethnic group is the Bengalis, with Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.
India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
