Bengal
Bengal is a cultural and historic region in South Asia, at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. On the north, it is bounded by the Himalayas; on the west by the Plains of India; on the east by North-Eastern India; and on the southeast by Myanmar.
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Bengal
- Type: historical region
- Description: historical and geographical region in the east region of the Indian subcontinent
- Also known as: “An Bheangál”, “Bagri”, “Bangal”, “Bangladesh”, “Bengalar”, “Bengāle”, “Bengaler”, “Bengalo”, “Bengalujo”, “Bongo”, “Bôngo”, “Gaudadesa”, “Gauḍadeśa”, “Regió de Bengala”, “Μπενγκαλία”, “Бенґалія”, “בנגאל”, “बङ्ग”, “बाङ्गला”, “बाृङ्गला”, “वङ्ग”, “অবিভক্ত বাংলা”, “অবিভক্ত বাংলা দেশ”, “গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ”, “বঙ্গদেশ”, “বাংলা”, “বাংলাদেশ”, “ബംഗാൾ”, “བེང་ག་ལི་”, “벵갈”, “ベンガル州”, “ベンゴール地方”, “孟加剌”, “孟加拉人民共和國”, “孟加拉地区”, “榜葛剌”, and “鹏茄罗”
- Category: region
- Location: South Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
23.28° or 23° 16′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
88.96° or 88° 57′ 36″ east
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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: “বঙ্গ”
- Bhojpuri: “बंगाल”
- Breton: “Bengal”
- Bulgarian: “Бенгал”
- Bulgarian: “Бенгалия”
- Catalan: “Bengala”
- Cebuano: “Bengal”
- Central Bikol: “Bengal”
- Central Kurdish: “بەنگال”
- Chechen: “Бенгали”
- Chinese: “孟加拉”
- Chinese: “孟加拉地區”
- Czech: “Bengálsko”
- Danish: “Bengalen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bengal”
- Dutch: “Bengalen”
- Esperanto: “Bengalio”
- Estonian: “Bengal”
- Finnish: “Bengali”
- French: “Bengale”
- Galician: “Bengala”
- German: “Bengalen”
- Greek: “Βεγγάλη”
- Gujarati: “બંગાળ”
- Haitian: “Bengal”
- Hebrew: “בנגל”
- Hindi: “बंगाल”
- Hungarian: “Bengália”
- Icelandic: “Bengal”
- Indonesian: “Benggala”
- Irish: “Beangál”
- Italian: “Bengala”
- Japanese: “ベンガル地方”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾ (ಬಙ್ಗ)”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾ”
- Kirghiz: “Бенгалия”
- Korean: “벵골”
- Lao: “ບັງກອລ”
- Latin: “Bengala”
- Latvian: “Bengālija”
- Literary Chinese: “孟加拉”
- Lithuanian: “Bengalija”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Bengal”
- Macedonian: “Бенгал”
- Magahi: “बङ्गाल”
- Malagasy: “Bengaly”
- Malay: “Benggala”
- Malayalam: “ബംഗാൾ”
- Marathi: “बंगाल”
- Mazanderani: “بنگال”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bengal”
- Mongolian: “Бенгал”
- Nepali: “बङ्गाल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bengal”
- 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: “Bengala”
- Sundanese: “Benggala”
- Swahili: “Bengala”
- Swedish: “Bengalen”
- Swiss German: “Bengale”
- Swiss German: “Bengalen”
- Tajik: “Бангола”
- Tamil: “வங்காளம்”
- Tatar: “Bengaliä”
- Telugu: “బెంగాల్”
- Thai: “เบงกอล”
- Tibetan: “བེང་ག་ལི།”
- Turkish: “Bengal”
- Ukrainian: “Бенгалія”
- 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: “孟加拉”
- Yue Chinese: “孟加拉區”
- “बंगाल”
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