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  1. City of West Bengal, India, on the right bank
  2. of the river Hooghly, opposite Calcutta;
  3. population (1981) 742,298. The capital of
  4. Howrah district, it has jute and cotton
  5. factories; rice, flour, and saw mills;
  6. chemical factories; and engineering works.
  7. Howrah suspension bridge, opened 1943, spans
  8. the river.
  9.