EPSG systems

EPSG:24382 Kalianpur 1880 / India zone IIb

Projected system (Lambert Conic Conformal (1SP)) in use: Asia - Bangladesh; India; Myanmar; Pakistan - zone Ilb. The full definition below, and conversion in one click.

EPSG publishes no simple transformation to WGS 84 for this datum: conversion works on the ellipsoid alone and can be off by tens of metres.

System record
CodeEPSG:24382
NameKalianpur 1880 / India zone IIb
TypeProjected system — Lambert Conic Conformal (1SP)
Area of use Asia - Bangladesh; India; Myanmar; Pakistan - zone Ilb
Bangladesh - onshore north of 21°N; India - onshore north of 21°N and east of 82°E; Myanmar (Burma) - north of 21°N.
Bounds W 82,00° · S 21,00° · E 101,17° · N 29,47°
Countries Bangladesh, India, Myanmar (Burma)
DatumKalianpur 1880
Ellipsoid Everest (1830 Definition) a = 6377299.36559538 m · 1/f = 300.801725543
Base geographic system EPSG:4243 — Kalianpur 1880
Unit Indian yard (E east, N north)
Transformation to WGS 84 No simple transformation published (ellipsoid alone)
ScopeEngineering survey, topographic mapping.

Projection parameters

ParameterValueUnit
Latitude of natural origin26degree
Longitude of natural origin90degree
Scale factor at natural origin0.99878641unity
False easting3000000Indian yard
False northing1000000Indian yard

proj4 definition

+proj=lcc +lat_1=26 +lat_0=26 +lon_0=90 +k_0=0.99878641 +x_0=2743195.59223332 +y_0=914398.530744441 +a=6377299.36559538 +b=6356098.35900516 +to_meter=0.914398530744441 +no_defs

Paste it into QGIS, proj4js, PostGIS (spatial_ref_sys) or GDAL. +towgs84 carries the EPSG transformation to WGS 84; the official code stays EPSG:24382.

WKT (ESRI format, the .prj content)

PROJCS["Kalianpur_1880_India_Zone_IIb",GEOGCS["GCS_Kalianpur_1880",DATUM["D_Kalianpur_1880",SPHEROID["Everest_1830",6377299.36559538,300.801725543355]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Lambert_Conformal_Conic"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",3000000.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",1000000.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",90.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",26.0],PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.99878641],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",26.0],UNIT["Indian yard",0.914398530744441]]

All systems — Bangladesh

Source: EPSG registry v11.022 (IOGP), through the PROJ database. Always check a code on epsg.org before contractual work.