Hugli-Chuchura

Hugli-Chuchura, also known by its former names Chinsurah or Hooghly-Chinsurah, is a city of Hooghly district and the district headquarters of the Hooghly division in the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the bank of the Hooghly River, 35 kilometres north of Kolkata, within the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. The English Wikipedia article describes it as one of the densely populated cities of the state, with a literacy rate of 91 percent. It houses the Commissioner of the Burdwan Range, the longest court building in West Bengal, the oldest Armenian church in India, and a transmitter that once broadcast the Akashvani Maitree service to Bangladesh. The 2011 census of India counted 288,506 residents.