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
- Historical region
- …is also known as “Bangal”
- Description: historical and geographical region in the east region of the Indian subcontinent
- Category: region
- Location
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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.
BengaleAfrikaans
BengaliAlbanian
بنغالArabic
ԲենգալիաArmenian
বংগAssamese
BengalaAsturian
BenqaliyaAzerbaijani
BenggalaBalinese
БенгалBashkir
BengalaBasque
БенгаліяBelarusian
অবিভক্ত বাংলাBengali
অবিভক্ত বাংলা দেশBengali
বঙ্গBengali
বঙ্গদেশBengali
বাংলাBengali
बंगालBhojpuri
BengalBreton
БенгалBulgarian
БенгалияBulgarian
BagriCatalan
BengalaCatalan
Regió de BengalaCatalan
BengalCebuano
BengalCentral Bikol
بەنگالCentral Kurdish
БенгалиChechen
孟加剌Chinese
孟加拉Chinese
孟加拉地区Chinese
孟加拉地區Chinese
榜葛剌Chinese
鹏茄罗Chinese
BengálskoCzech
BengalenDanish
BengalDimli (individual language)
BengalenDutch
BengalioEsperanto
BengaloEsperanto
BengalujoEsperanto
BengalEstonian
BengalFinnish
BengaliFinnish
BengalaGalician
ΒεγγάληGreek
ΜπενγκαλίαGreek
બંગાળGujarati
BengalHaitian
בנגאלHebrew
בנגלHebrew
बंगालHindi
BengáliaHungarian
BengalIcelandic
BenggalaIndonesian
An BheangálIrish
BeangálIrish
BengalaItalian
ベンガル地方Japanese
ベンガル州Japanese
ベンゴール地方Japanese
榜葛剌Japanese
ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾKannada
ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾ (ಬಙ್ಗ)Kannada
БенгалияKirghiz
벵갈Korean
벵골Korean
ບັງກອລLao
BengalaLatin
BengāleLatvian
BengālijaLatvian
BôngoLatvian
孟加拉Literary Chinese
BengalijaLithuanian
BengalMacedo-Romanian
БенгалMacedonian
बङ्गMagahi
बाृङ्गलाMagahi
वङ्गMagahi
BengalyMalagasy
BengalMalay
BenggalaMalay
BengalMalayalam
ബംഗാൾMalayalam
बंगालMarathi
بنگالMazanderani
BengalMin Nan Chinese
БенгалMongolian
बंगालNepali
बङ्गालNepali
BengalNorwegian
BengalNorwegian Bokmål
BengalarNorwegian Bokmål
BengalenNorwegian Bokmål
BengalerNorwegian Bokmål
BengalNorwegian Nynorsk
BengalaOccitan (post 1500)
BengalOld English (ca. 450-1100)
ବଙ୍ଗOriya
БенгалиOssetian
ਬੰਗਾਲPanjabi
بنگالPersian
BengalPolish
بنګالPushto
BengalRomanian
БенгалияRussian
वङ्गःSanskrit
ᱵᱟᱝᱞᱟSantali
BengalScots
БенгалSerbian
BengalSerbo-Croatian
بنگالSindhi
බෙංගාලයSinhala
BengalijaSlovenian
بنقالSouth Azerbaijani
BenggalaSundanese
BengalaSwahili
BengalenSwedish
BengaleSwiss German
BengalenSwiss German
БанголаTajik
வங்காளம்Tamil
BengaliäTatar
బెంగాల్Telugu
เบงกอลThai
བེང་ག་ལི་Tibetan
BengalTurkish
БенгалUkrainian
БенгаліяUkrainian
БенґаліяUkrainian
بنگالUrdu
BengaliyaUzbek
BengałaVenetian
BengalVietnamese
BengalWaray (Philippines)
BengalWelsh
بنگالWestern Panjabi
孟加拉（地区）Wu Chinese
BangladeshYue Chinese
গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশYue Chinese
বাংলাদেশYue Chinese
孟加拉Yue Chinese
孟加拉人民共和國Yue Chinese
孟加拉區Yue Chinese
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