Malda

Malda, also known as English Bazar, is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal and the headquarters of both Malda district and the Malda division. The English Wikipedia article calls it the sixth largest urban agglomeration in the state, made up of the English Bazar Municipality and the Old Malda Municipality under the Malda Metropolitan Area, on the banks of the Mahananda River. It says the city was undeveloped until it began to expand between 1925 and 1930. The average elevation is 17 metres and the weather is extremely humid and subtropical. At the 2011 census the Malda metropolitan city had 324,237 residents, of whom 216,083 lived in the English Bazar municipality.