India, Aug. 29 -- Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor is the longest industrial corridor in India. It's built around the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor, a cargo-only rail line, meant to turn the land alongside it into a belt of factories and manufacturing clusters. Here's everything the corridor covers, from its cities to its airports and manufacturing zones.

The States and Cities this Corridor Runs Through AKIC runs through seven states, and there are nearly 20 cities that benefit from this corridor.

States covered: Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal.

Population and footprint: These states make up about a 5th of India's land area but hold roughly 2/5th of its population which is around ...