Ranitala is a village, with a police station, in the Bhagawangola II CD block in the Lalbag subdivision of Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal, India.

Other villages in Baligram gram panchayat are: Anupnagar, Balijana, Dhwajamat, Jibanpur, Kalyan Nagar, Kamari, Mehadipur, Rajabati, Baligram, Boalia, Jhikra, Jogopur, Kamal Chak, Khagjana, Nandanpur, Rajapur and Sahari.

Murshidabad district shares with Bangladesh a porous international border which is notoriously crime prone (partly shown in this map).

[3][4][5] The historic city of Murshidabad, a centre of major tourist attraction, is located in this area.

In 1717, when Murshid Quli Khan became Subahdar, he made Murshidabad the capital of Subah Bangla (then Bengal, Bihar and Odisha).