Cooch Behar Palace
Modelled on Buckingham Palace in 1887, with a dome twenty four metres above a marble floored durbar hall.
- Where
- Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India
- Grade
- National monument
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 5 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 26.3269, 89.4386
Get the Cooch Behar Palace stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Cooch Behar Palace. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your West Bengal volume with your photos and a note.
Near Cooch Behar Palace
Buxa Tiger Reserve 20 km
A fort used as a prison, deep inside the forest.
Jaldapara National Park 42 km
Rhino in the dooars, seen from an elephant.
Buxa Fort 50 km
A fort at 867 metres inside the Buxa forest, thirty kilometres up from Alipurduar.
Panbari Mosque 64 km
The oldest mosque in Assam, built in the time of Hussain Shah and still standing at Dhubri.
Raimona National Park 65 km
Bodoland's first national park, on the Bhutan border, notified in 2021.
Gorumara National Park 78 km
Watchtowers over salt licks in the Terai.
Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary 78 km
One of Bhutan's smallest protected areas, 268.93 square kilometres in western Sarpang and southeastern Dagana along the border with West Bengal. Its forests rise from 200 to 1,600 metres between the Sunkosh river to the west and the Sanathang to the east.
Daga Dzong 94 km
A fortress in Dagana District in the south of Bhutan, serving as the district headquarters. It also houses the district's monastic body, so like the great dzongs of the west it works as both government office and monastery.
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Questions
Where is Cooch Behar Palace?
Cooch Behar Palace is in Cooch Behar, West Bengal. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Buxa Tiger Reserve (20 km), Jaldapara National Park (42 km), Buxa Fort (50 km).
How do I get the Cooch Behar Palace stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Cooch Behar Palace and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your West Bengal volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Cooch Behar Palace before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your West Bengal volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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