page_title: Berhampore
section_title: Tourist spots
hierarchical_section_title: Berhampore / Tourist spots
caption_attribution_description: English: RESIDENCY CEMETERY OF BERHAMPORE,LATE 1600 AD.
context_page_description: Berhampore is a city and a municipality in the state of West Bengal, India. As of the 2011 census, it had a population of 305,609 and was the seventh largest city in West Bengal. Berhampore is the administrative headquarters of the Murshidabad district. It is located about 200 km from Kolkata, the state capital.It is one of the most important business, administrative, educational and political hub of Bengal as well as of India. Congress Loksabha leader sri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is elected from this city. It is one of the most popular Urban agglomeration of Bengal state. It was the first centre of East India Company in India. Not only British but also Dutch and French established their companies in this city as a result it grew as a production hub of India. It is famous for its famous sweets such as chanabora, Manohara, rasgulla amd many more.
  the city is divided into five administrative regions: Gorabazar, Khagra, Idrapastha, Cossimbazar, Haridasmati. Berhampore was a part of Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 which took place at Berhampore Cantonment region. It was used by many foreign traders as their production hub.
context_section_description: Berhampore is a famous place for tourists in West Bengal. It gets tourists' flow from locals as well as from foreigners, being the first headquarters of the East India Company and having a long history enriched by the Nawabs of Bengal, Sultans of Bengal, Zamindar and other European colonial forces such as Dutch, Portuguese, English (British Raj) and French.
caption: European Residency Cemetery, late 1600 A.D.
exif: {"Image Make": "Nokia", "Image Model": "6233", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "V 05.60", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "157", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "329", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "3299", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1600", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1200"}