Salt Lake Stadium (in Bengali যুবভারতী ক্রীড়াঙ্গন, Yuva Bharati Krirangan), is a multi-purpose stadium in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal. It is the largest stadium in India, and the second largest stadium in the world by capacity.
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