Kolkata additionally delivered Calcutta the authority name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian territory of West Bengal. Situated on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, the city is roughly 80 kilometers (50 mi) west of the boundary with Bangladesh. It is the essential business, business, and monetary center point of Eastern India and the principle port of correspondence for North-East India,as well as having the third-biggest metropolitan economy of India. As indicated by the 2011 Indian registration, Kolkata is the seventh-most crowded city in India, with a populace of 4.5 million occupants inside as far as possible, and a populace of over 14.1 million inhabitants in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area, making it the third-most crowded metropolitan region in India. The Port of Kolkata is India's most established working port and its sole major riverine port. Kolkata is known as the "social capital of India" for the city's chronicled and compositional criticalness

A demographically assorted city, the way of life of Kolkata highlights quirks that incorporate particularly affectionate areas (paras) and free-form discussions (adda). Kolkata is home to West Bengal's entertainment world Tollywood, and social organizations, for example, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Victoria Memorial, the Asiatic Society, the Indian Museum and the National Library of India. Among logical organizations, Kolkata has the Agri Horticultural Society of India, the Geological Survey of India, the Botanical Survey of India, the Calcutta Mathematical Society, the Indian Science Congress Association, the Zoological Survey of India, the Institution of Engineers, the Anthropological Survey of India and the Indian Public Health Association. Four Nobel laureates and two Nobel Memorial Prize victors are related with the city. In spite of the fact that home to major cricketing scenes and establishments, Kolkata contrasts from other Indian urban communities by zeroing in on affiliation football and different games.