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Kharagpur

India219.7K people
Kharagpur is a semi-planned urban agglomeration and a major industrial city in the Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of the Kharagpur subdivision and the largest city of the district. It is located 120 km west of Kolkata. Kharagpur holds the oldest and biggest Indian Institute of Technology namely IIT Kharagpur. It has the fourth longest railway platform in the world, with a length of 1,072 m, after Hubbali, Gorakhpur and Kollam junctions. The Kharagpur Junction railway station is the headquarters of the Kharagpur Division of the South Eastern Railways.

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