North Barrackpore

North Barrackpore, written North Barrackpur in the title of its English Wikipedia article, is a city and municipality of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, India, within the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. The municipality was established in 1869, and Sir Surendranath Banerjee was the first Indian elected chairman in 1885, holding the office for 34 years in all. It is bounded by Garulia on the north and by the Hooghly on the west, and neighbourhoods such as Ichapore, Nawabganj and Palta lie within it. The 2011 census of India counted 132,806 residents, 66,924 of them male and 65,882 female, and the municipal city covered 12.61 square kilometres.