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Cooch Behar
Koch Bihar | |
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City | |
Top: Cooch Behar Palace, bottom: Sadardighi Lake in 2013 | |
Coordinates: 26°19′27.084″N 89°27′3.6″E / 26.32419000°N 89.451000°E | |
Country | ![]() |
State | West Bengal |
District | Cooch Behar |
Government | |
• Type | Municipality |
• Body | Cooch Behar Municipality |
• Chairman | Rabindra Nath Ghosh (All India Trinamool Congress) |
Area | |
• Total | 8.29 km2 (3.20 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[2] | |
• Total | 77,935 |
• Density | 832/km2 (2,150/sq mi) |
Languages | |
• Official | Bengali[3][4] |
• Additional official | English,[3] Rajbongshi[5] |
• Regional | Bengali, Rajbongshi |
Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
PIN | 736101 |
Telephone code | 03582 |
Vehicle registration | WB-64/63 |
Lok Sabha constituency | Cooch Behar (SC) |
Vidhan Sabha constituency | Cooch Behar Uttar (SC), Cooch Behar Dakshin, Natabari |
Website | coochbehar |
Cooch Behar (/ˌkuːtʃ bɪˈhɑːr/), or Koch Bihar, is a city and a municipality on the bank of River Torsa in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Cooch Behar district. It is in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas at 26°22′N 89°29′E / 26.367°N 89.483°E. Cooch Behar is a planned city.[6] Being one of the main tourist destinations of West Bengal, housing the Cooch Behar Palace and Madan Mohan Temple, it has been declared a heritage city.[7] It is the maternal home of Gayatri Devi, the consort of the ruler of the former Jaipur State.
During the British Raj, Cooch Behar was the seat of the princely state of Koch Bihar, ruled by the Koch dynasty. On 20 August 1949, Cooch Behar District was transformed from a princely state to its present status, with the city of Cooch Behar as its headquarters.[8]
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