India · 19th century
Buxa Fort ranks #3,804 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #147 of the 223 mapped in India. Founded 1873, it is older than 6% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,314 times in the last 60 days, more than 58% of the atlas. The nearest day-trip guide is Thimphu, 80 km away. See how India compares in the castle statistics.
Buxa Fort is located at an altitude of 867 metres (2,844 ft) in the Buxa Tiger Reserve, in the Kalchini CD block in the Alipurduar subdivision of the Alipurduar district in West Bengal, India. It is 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Alipurduar, the nearest town. The King of Bhutan used the fort to protect territory connecting Tibet with India, via Bhutan. During the unrest in the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, hundreds of displaced persons used the abandoned fort as a place of refuge.
Text adapted from “Buxa Fort” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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