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List of roads in Kolkata

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ125747187 ↗
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Kolkata (greater) is home to the second largest road network in India, only after New Delhi. As of 2022, total road network in the city's metropolitan area is 4018 km while the city proper has road network of 1850 km. The following is a list of major roads, streets and avenues in the Kolkata (greater).

Major North-South roads in Kolkata city

This list covers major North-South roads in the Kolkata city proper as well as in Kolkata Metropolitan Area.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of roads in Kolkata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.