Balasore or Baleswar is a city in the province of Odisha, around 194 kilometers 121 mi north of the State capital Bhubaneswar, in eastern India. It is the authoritative base camp of Balasore region. It is best known for Chandipur shoreline. It is additionally the site of the Indian Ballistic Missile Defense Program's Integrated Test Range, found 18 km. south of Balasore. The Defense Research and Development Organization created ious rockets, for example, Nag, Brahmos, Agni Missile among others here.
This is the place acclaimed flexibility contender Jatindranath Mukherjee otherwise called Bagha Jatin got harmed and kicked the bucket battling the British. The talked dialect in Balasore is Odia. It is the greatest city of North Odisha. Baleshwar locale was a piece of the antiquated Kalinga kingdom which later turned into a domain of Utkal, till the demise of Mukunda Dev.
It was added by the Mughal Empire in 1568 and stayed as a piece of their suzerainty up until the 1700s. The British East India Company EIC built up a processing plant at Balasore in 1633. As Calcutta ascended in significance, Balasore turned into the inside for waterway pilot administrations for vessels looking to rise the Hooghli River.