Jalpaiguri

Jalpaiguri is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal and the headquarters of the Jalpaiguri district and of the Jalpaiguri division, which covers the five districts of North Bengal. The English Wikipedia article places the city on the banks of the Teesta River and the Karala River, on the foothills of the Himalayas, and gives the annual average temperature as 24.8 degrees Celsius. According to the 2011 census Jalpaiguri had a population of 107,341, of whom 53,708 were male and 53,633 female, while the metropolitan region had 169,002 people.