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What you absolutely must know before daring to enter Salt Lake!
- Roads in Salt Lake have no names! In fact, some of them do. But the road names are not used in addresses, and few residents are aware of the names. So if you ask a resident about how to get to the crossing of 2nd avenue and 5-th cross road, you could as well ask your question in Japanese!
- Salt Lake is divided into various blocks that are named with two letters, like AA or DF. Roughly speaking the first letter increases from east to west, while the second letter increases from north to south.
- Officially Salt Lake addresses take one of three forms
- Like AH 108, meaning house no. 108 of block AH. Most residential addresses are of this type.
- Like A-22 Digantika, AH block, meaning flat no. A-22 of the appartment complex Digantika situated in the AH block.
- Government offices are usually located by the name of the building like Bikash Bhavan, Poura Bhavan etc.
- Water tanks play the role of landmarks all throughout Salt Lake. So whenever you hear about a location in Salt Lake try to learn which is its nearest water tank. Residents as well as bus conductors and auto drivers know the tank locations quite well.
