Baranagar

Baranagar is a city and municipality in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area, in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India, within the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It is home to the Indian Statistical Institute, a national institution devoted to research and teaching in statistics and the natural and social sciences, and to the Baranagar Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School, named in the English Wikipedia article as one of the oldest and most renowned schools in the town. The average elevation is 12 metres. The 2011 census of India counted 245,213 residents, 126,187 of them male and 119,026 female, down from 250,615 in 2001, and the municipal city covered 7.12 square kilometres with 160.23 kilometres of roads.