Kolkata Geographic coordinates

Kolkata is located at latitude 22.56263 and longitude 88.36304. It is part of Asia and the northern hemisphere.

The geographic coordinate system enables any place in the world to be located using its latitude and longitude. The latitude is the position relative to the equator, specifying the north-south position. The longitude specifies the east-west position measured from a reference meridian (usually the Greenwich Prime Meridian). The latitude and longitude of Kolkata have been calculated based on the geodetic datum WGS84.

Map of Kolkata with coordinates

Latitude and longitude of India

There are many systems and formats to represent geographic coordinates. The following table matches the equivalence between the most common formats:

System	Latitude	Longitude
Simple decimal standard	22.56263	88.36304
Decimal Degrees (DD)	22.5626° N	88.363° E
Degrees and Decimal Minutes (DDM)	22°33.758' N	88°21.782' E
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds (DMS)	22°33'45.5'' N	88°21'46.9'' E