Bridge across a river, Howrah Bridge, Hooghly River, Calcutta, West Bengal, India
The Howrah Bridge is a bridge that spans the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. On 14 June 1965 it was renamed Rabindra Setu, after Rabindranath Tagore a great poet and the first Indian Nobel laureate. However it is still popularly known as the Howrah Bridge. Apart from bearing the stormy weather of the Bay of Bengal region, it successfully bears the weight of a daily traffic of approximately 150,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 pedestrians. It is one of the longest bridges of its type in the world.
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Location: Howrah Bridge, Hooghly River, Calcutta, West Bengal, India
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