Halisahar

Halisahar 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 English Wikipedia article says it is believed to have existed from the early Middle Ages under the earlier name Kumarhatta, that Abul Fazl mentioned it as Halisahar in the Ain-i-Akbari in the 16th century, and that the municipality was established in 1903. The 2011 census of India counted 124,939 residents, 65,467 of them male and 59,472 female, and the municipal city covered 8.29 square kilometres with 163.7 kilometres of roads.