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Bengal

Bengal is a cultural and historic region in . It is situated at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. On the north, it is bounded by the ; on the west by the of India; on the east by ; and on the southeast by .
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The is the largest mangrove forest or saline woodland in the world. The total area of the is approximately 10,000 square kilometers, shared jointly between Bangladesh and India.

Bengal

Latitude of center
23.28° or 23° 16′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
88.96° or 88° 57′ 36″ east
Wiki­data ID
Q80338
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bengal” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bengale”
  • Albanian: “Bengali”
  • Arabic: “بنغال”
  • Armenian: “Բենգալիա”
  • Assamese: “বংগ”
  • Asturian: “Bengala”
  • Azerbaijani: “Benqaliya”
  • Balinese: “Benggala”
  • Bashkir: “Бенгал”
  • Basque: “Bengala”
  • Belarusian: “Бенгалія”
  • Bengali: “অবিভক্ত বাংলা দেশ”
  • Bengali: “অবিভক্ত বাংলা”
  • Bengali: “বঙ্গ”
  • Bengali: “বঙ্গদেশ”
  • Bengali: “বাংলা”
  • Bhojpuri: “बंगाल”
  • Breton: “Bengal”
  • Bulgarian: “Бенгал”
  • Bulgarian: “Бенгалия”
  • Catalan: “Bagri”
  • Catalan: “Bengala”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Bengala”
  • Cebuano: “Bengal”
  • Central Bikol: “Bengal”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەنگال”
  • Chechen: “Бенгали”
  • Chinese: “Bengal”
  • Chinese: “孟加剌”
  • Chinese: “孟加拉”
  • Chinese: “孟加拉區”
  • Chinese: “孟加拉地区”
  • Chinese: “孟加拉地區”
  • Chinese: “榜葛剌”
  • Chinese: “鹏茄罗”
  • Czech: “Bengálsko”
  • Danish: “Bengalen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bengal”
  • Dutch: “Bengalen”
  • Esperanto: “Bengalio”
  • Esperanto: “Bengalo”
  • Esperanto: “Bengalujo”
  • Estonian: “Bengal”
  • Finnish: “Bengal”
  • Finnish: “Bengali”
  • French: “Bengale”
  • Galician: “Bengala”
  • German: “Bengalen”
  • Greek: “Βεγγάλη”
  • Greek: “Μπενγκαλία”
  • Gujarati: “બંગાળ”
  • Haitian: “Bengal”
  • Hebrew: “בנגאל”
  • Hebrew: “בנגל”
  • Hindi: “बंगाल”
  • Hungarian: “Bengália”
  • Icelandic: “Bengal”
  • Indonesian: “Benggala”
  • Irish: “An Bheangál”
  • Irish: “Beangál”
  • Italian: “Bengala”
  • Japanese: “ベンガル地方”
  • Japanese: “ベンガル州”
  • Japanese: “ベンゴール地方”
  • Japanese: “榜葛剌”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾ (ಬಙ್ಗ)”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Бенгалия”
  • Korean: “벵갈”
  • Korean: “벵골”
  • Lao: “ບັງກອລ”
  • Latin: “Bengala”
  • Latvian: “Bengāle”
  • Latvian: “Bengālija”
  • Latvian: “Bongo”
  • Latvian: “Bôngo”
  • Literary Chinese: “孟加拉”
  • Lithuanian: “Bengalija”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bengal”
  • Macedonian: “Бенгал”
  • Magahi: “बङ्ग”
  • Magahi: “बङ्गाल”
  • Magahi: “बाङ्गला”
  • Magahi: “वङ्ग”
  • Malagasy: “Bengaly”
  • Malay: “Bengal”
  • Malay: “Benggala”
  • Malayalam: “Bengal”
  • Malayalam: “ബംഗാൾ”
  • Malayalam: “ബംഗാൾ‍”
  • Marathi: “बंगाल”
  • Mazanderani: “بنگال”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bengal”
  • Mongolian: “Бенгал”
  • Nepali: “बंगाल”
  • Nepali: “बङ्गाल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bengal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bengalar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bengalen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bengaler”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bengal”
  • Norwegian: “Bengal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bengala”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bengal”
  • Oriya: “ବଙ୍ଗ”
  • Ossetian: “Бенгали”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੰਗਾਲ”
  • Persian: “بنگال”
  • Polish: “Bengal”
  • Portuguese: “Bengala”
  • Pushto: “بنګال”
  • Romanian: “Bengal”
  • Russian: “Бенгалия”
  • Sanskrit: “वङ्गः”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱟᱝᱞᱟ”
  • Scots: “Bengal”
  • Serbian: “Бенгал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bengal”
  • Sindhi: “بنگال”
  • Sinhala: “බෙංගාලය”
  • Slovenian: “Bengalija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بنقال”
  • Spanish: “Bengal”
  • Spanish: “Bengala”
  • Spanish: “Gaudadesa”
  • Spanish: “Gauḍadeśa”
  • Sundanese: “Benggala”
  • Swedish: “Bengalen”
  • Swiss German: “Bengale”
  • Tajik: “Бангола”
  • Tamil: “வங்காளம்”
  • Tatar: “Bengaliä”
  • Telugu: “బెంగాల్”
  • Tibetan: “བེང་ག་ལི་”
  • Tibetan: “བེང་ག་ལི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bengalen”
  • Turkish: “Bengal”
  • Ukrainian: “Бенгал”
  • Ukrainian: “Бенгалія”
  • Ukrainian: “Бенґалія”
  • Urdu: “بنگال”
  • Uzbek: “Bengaliya”
  • Venetian: “Bengała”
  • Vietnamese: “Bengal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bengal”
  • Welsh: “Bengal”
  • Western Panjabi: “بنگال”
  • Wu Chinese: “孟加拉 (地区)”
  • Wu Chinese: “孟加拉（地区）”
  • Yue Chinese: “Bangladesh”
  • Yue Chinese: “গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ”
  • Yue Chinese: “বাংলাদেশ”
  • Yue Chinese: “孟加拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “孟加拉人民共和國”
  • “Bengal”
  • “बंगाल”

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