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Cities with over a million residents (city proper or metropolitan):
| Name | Metropolitan area, if not the center city |
| অাসানসোল (Āsānsol) | |
| হাওড়া (Hāora) | কলকাতা (Kolkata) |
| কলকাতা (Kolkata) |
Selected smaller cities or former cities:
| Name | Metropolitan area, if not the center city | Alternate names |
| চুঁচুড়া-হগলি (Chunchura-Hugli) | কলকাতা (Kolkata) | Chinsurah-Hugli, Chinsurah, হগলি (Hugli), Hooghly, Ugulim |
| Jannatabad | Gaur, Gauḍa, Gour Malda, probabaly Ramavati | |
| মুশিদাবাদ (Murshidābād) | Murshidabad |
হলদিয়া (Haldia or Haldiyā) is an important coal port
Pandua
Cities in northern পশিচণবনগ (Paścimbangga) along the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and tourist attraction,
Tourists visit two other cities:
| Name | Year | Population | Alternate names |
| তমলুক (Tamlūk) | 361 CE | Tamralipti | |
| Pandua | 1400 CE | 60,000 |
1. There should be a diglyph/ conjunct for শচ which would eliminate one vertical line, and there should be a diglyph/ conjunct for নগ which would have the core of the second glyph dangle from a curvy version of the first glyph and with a horizontal line with a small loop below it and with no vertical line.
2. The Indian national government may not have approved this name, but the state government uses it. See https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/West_Bengal_State_Emblem.jpg, accessed July 18, 2018 for seal. The English name of the state is West Bengal. Paścim (transliterated Hindi) means west.
3. Also spelled Howrah.
4. Formerly Calcutta.
5. I do not know the non-Roman script for the name.
6. The Rupnārāyan River is the name of the lower course of a river whose upstream portion is called Dwārkeswar. It joins the Hugli (Hoogly) near that river's mouth. The Hugli flows into the Bay of Bengal and is a distributary of the Ganga (Ganges).
7. The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.
8. The Haldī is formed by the confluence of the Keleghai and the Kansai.
9. I do not know the medieval non-Roman script for Pandua.
10. Selected from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_attractions_in_West_Bengal, accessed July 11, 2018. The first nine were examined but the Donars was omitted as too vague, so eight were included for these articles. Darjeeling is also a tourist attraction on its own, apart from the railway.
11. The city of Darjeeling or Dājīling and its sub-district uses Nepali as an official language, which uses Devanagari. I do not know its Bengali representation.
12. There should be an acute accent on the শ
13. https://i1.trekearth.com/photos/5043/siliguri-junction.jpg for a picture of the name of Siliguri; the gu sylable is dificult to figure out. In any case https://www.news18.com/news/india/six-bengal-cities-get-new-names-siliguri-to-be-called-teesta-kalyani-renamed-samriddhi-983699.html shows that Siliguri is or will be Teesta (city).
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_India, table for April 2017 to March 2018, accessed July 11, 2018.
15. There should be a diglyph/ conjunct for मप which would eliminate a vertical line. The city of Kalimpong or Kālimpong has Nepali as an official language, which uses Devanagari. I do not know its Bengali representation.
16. Tertius Chandler, op. cit., "Tables of the World's Largest Cities." In 361 CE Tamralipti, and in 1400 Pandua, was the largest city in what is now পশিচণবনগ (Paścimbangga). Tamralipti had a population less than Leptis, which had 50,000, and greater than or equal to Stakr (or Istakhr), which was greater than Indrapura, which was greater than Axum, which was greater than or equal to Kanchi and Merib, which were greater than Aror, which was greater than Varanasi, which was greater than Siracusa, which was greater than Smyrna (İzmir), which was greater than Vienne, which had 45,000 residents.