Bengal
Bengal is a cultural and historic region in Asia. It is situated at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. On the north, it is bounded by the Himalayas; on the west by Northern India; on the east by North East India; and on the southeast by Burma.- Type: Historical region
- Description: historical and geographical region in the east region of the Indian subcontinent
- Category: geographic region
- Location: South Asia, Asia
Latitude of center 24° or 24° north | Longitude of center 88° or 88° east |
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Bengale
- Albanian: Bengali
- Arabic: Bengal
- Arabic: بنغال
- Armenian: Բենգալիա
- Asturian: Bengala
- Azerbaijani: Benqaliya
- Azerbaijani: بئنقال
- Balinese: Benggala
- Bashkir: Бенгал
- Basque: Bengala
- Belarusian: Бенгалія
- Bengali: অবিভক্ত বাংলা
- Bengali: বঙ্গ
- Bengali: বঙ্গদেশ
- Bhojpuri: बंगाल
- Breton: Bengal
- Bulgarian: Бенгал
- Bulgarian: Бенгалия
- Catalan: Bengala
- Catalan: Regió de Bengala
- Cebuano: Bengal
- Central Bikol: Bengal
- Chechen: Бенгали
- Chinese: Bengal
- Chinese: 孟加剌
- Chinese: 孟加拉
- 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
- Hebrew: בנגאל
- Hebrew: בנגל
- Hindi: बंगाल
- Hungarian: Bengália
- Icelandic: Bengal
- Indonesian: Bengala
- Indonesian: Benggala
- 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
- Korean: 벵갈
- Korean: 벵골
- Latin: Bengala
- Latvian: Bengāle
- Latvian: Bengālija
- Latvian: Bongo
- Latvian: Bôngo
- Literary Chinese: 孟加拉
- Lithuanian: Bengalija
- Macedo-Romanian: Bengal
- Macedonian: Бенгал
- Malay: Bengal
- Malay: Benggala
- Malayalam: Bengal
- Malayalam: ബംഗാൾ
- Malayalam: ബംഗാൾ
- Marathi: बंगाल
- Min Nan Chinese: Bengal
- Mongolian: Бенгал
- Nepali: बंगाल
- Nepali: बङ्गाल
- Norwegian: Bengal
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bengal
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bengalar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bengalen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bengaler
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Bengal
- Occitan (post 1500): Bengala
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Bengal
- Oriya: ବଙ୍ଗ
- Ossetian: Бенгали
- Panjabi: ਬੰਗਾਲ
- Persian: بنگال
- Polish: Bengal
- Portuguese: Bengala
- Portuguese: Bengalofonia
- Romanian: Bengal
- Russian: Бенгалия
- Scots: Bengal
- Serbian: Бенгал
- Serbo-Croatian: Bengal
- Sindhi: بنگال
- 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
- Vietnamese: Bengal
- Waray (Philippines): Bengal
- Welsh: Bengal
- Western Panjabi: بنگال
- 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
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