Barsoi

Barsoi
Town
Nickname:  City of villages
Barsoi Location in Bihar, India
Coordinates: 25°39′05″N 87°55′21″E
Country	India
State	Bihar
Region	Anga
District	Katihar
Elevation	67 m (220 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	344,133
Languages
• Official	Hindi, Urdu
• Regional	Angika,Surjapuri, Maithili, Hindi, Bengali
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	855102
Telephone code	06451
ISO 3166 code	IN-BR
Lok Sabha constituency	Katihar
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Balrampur

Barsoi is a town and nagar panchayat which serves headquarters of a subdivision in Katihar district in the state of Bihar, India. It is an important railway junction under Katihar division Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways.^[1]

Barsoi Junction connects four routes as in the north Siliguri Junction on broad gauge and New Jalpaiguri Junction on broad gauge, on broad gauges Radhikapur near Bangladesh border on east and Katihar Junction on west and on south Kumedpur Junction railway station, Kolkata.It is one of the biggest railway junction of NFR.

Divisions

Barsoi subdivision is divided into four community development blocks: Kadwa, Azamnagar, Barsoi and Balrampur.

See also

• Barsoi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

References

1. nr-est-frt-rly Archived 30 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine

25°39′05″N 87°55′21″E