Howrah Bridge

<p>The Howrah Bridge is a balanced <a href="/facts/Steel/aN6qWo4H">steel</a> <a href="/facts/Bridge/vBJ7Hw8v">bridge</a> over the <a href="/facts/Hooghly_River/uqq72bFT">Hooghly River</a> in <a href="/facts/West_Bengal/0B5bxvbW">West Bengal</a>, India. Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a <a href="/facts/Pontoon_bridge/DX5xQlzl">pontoon bridge</a> at the same location linking the both sides of cities of Kolkata (Calcutta). Burrabazar is connected with Howrah rail terminal because of this bridge. On 14 June 1965, it was renamed Rabindra Setu  after the <a href="/facts/Bengali_people/zUbaEVXE">Bengali</a> poet <a href="/facts/Rabindranath_Tagore/SNQJqLtk">Rabindranath Tagore</a>, who was the first Indian and Asian <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature/wWVXbIbp">Nobel laureate</a>. It is still popularly known as the Howrah Bridge.
</p><p>The bridge is one of four on the <a href="/facts/Hooghly_River/uqq72bFT">Hooghly River</a> and is a famous symbol of <a href="/facts/Kolkata/k0HVgEYm">Kolkata</a> and <a href="/facts/West_Bengal/0B5bxvbW">West Bengal</a>. The other bridges are the <a href="/facts/Vidyasagar_Setu/R1oLu1yS">Vidyasagar Setu</a> (popularly called the Second Hooghly Bridge), the <a href="/facts/Vivekananda_Setu/QQUD9AaC">Vivekananda Setu</a> and the relatively new <a href="/facts/Nivedita_Setu/7y6f6s1w">Nivedita Setu</a>. It carries a daily <a href="/facts/Traffic/cHx4tMo1">traffic</a> of approximately 100,000 vehicles and possibly more than 150,000 pedestrians, easily making it the busiest cantilever bridge in the world. The third-longest cantilever bridge at the time of its construction, the Howrah Bridge is currently the sixth-longest bridge of its type in the world.
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Howrah Bridge open-in-new

Howrah Bridge