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Mogra (also spelt Magra or Mugra) is a gram panchayat, police station and headquarters of Chinsurah-Mogra community development block in Hooghly district in West Bengal, India. It is in Chinsurah subdivision.〔(District-wise list of statutory towns )〕 It is a railway station on the Howrah-Bardhaman Main Line, 47 km from Howrah station, and 7 km from Bandel.〔Eastern Railway time table.〕 All India Radio has located some of its high power transmitters at Mogra. These transmitters carry a mix of domestic and external services.〔(Radio Transmitters ), (Radio Transmitters )〕 ==Geography== Mogra is a small and lively town on the outskirts of Hooghly District. One of Asia's oldest and longest major roads, the Grand Trunk Road, passes through Mogra. Mogra is an hour's drive from Kolkata, the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of Eastern India. A small river, Kunti, flows on the western side of the town. Mogra has quite a lot of significant and interesting places in its vicinity, which can be commuted to easily with 20-30 minutes of drive. Some of them are mentioned below: * Tribeni, a holy town, located on the banks of the mighty river Ganga * Kalyani, a planned town and an education hub, also a site of an American Airforce Base during World War II * Bandel, a former Portuguese trading outpost and settlement, also home to one of West Bengal's oldest Church. Sarat Chandra, the writer of Devdas, was born here. * Chinsurah, former Portuguese and Dutch settlement. Also the place where India's national song, "Vande Mataram" was composed. * Chandannagar, a former French colony, and a place of great historic importance * Barrackpore, the epicenter of the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny or India's First war of Independence, led by Mangal Pandey Mogra is located at .〔( Yahoo maps )〕 It has an average elevation of . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mogra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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