|— City —| |Nickname(s): The Silver City / City of 1000 Years|
|Founder||King Markat Keshari| |Named for||Barabati Fort| |•
Body||Municipal Corporation| |• Municipal
Commissioner||Rabinarayan Nanda| |• Mayor||Saumendra Kumar
Ghose| |• Total||398 km2 (154 sq mi)| |Elevation||36 m (118 ft)|
|• Density||4,382.23/km2 (11,349.9/sq mi)| |Time zone||IST
(UTC+5:30)| Cuttack i// is the former capital and city of state
Odisha, India. It is the headquarters of Cuttack district and is
located about 28 km to the north east of Bhubaneswar, the
capital of Odisha. It is the judicial capital of Odisha as the
Orissa High Court is located here.The name of the city is an
anglicised form of Kataka that literally means The Fort, a
reference to the ancient Barabati Fort around which the city
developed. The city is spread across an area of 398 km2 (154 sq
mi) and is situated at the beginning of the Mahanadi river
delta. The city consists of 54 wards; in south it starts from
Phulnakhara to Salipur, and in east it begins from Bidyadha