Encyclopedia > West Bengal

Article Content

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the northeast of India. Neighbouring regions are Nepal and Sikkim to the northwest, Bhutan to the north, Assam to the northeast, Bangladesh to the east, the Bay of Bengal to the south, Orissa to the southwest and Jharkhand and Bihar to the west.

Its capital city is Kolkata.

Bengal was divided between India and Pakistan in 1947. The Pakistani part later became Bangladesh.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Sanskrit language

... found in many present-day languages. For instance the Thai language contains many loan words[?] from Sanskrit. Table of contents 1 Phonology and writing system ...