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West Bengal ( / bɛnˈɡɔːl /, Bengali: Poshchim Bongo, pronounced [ˈpoʃtʃim ˈbɔŋɡo] ⓘ, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of 88,752 km 2 (34,267 sq mi) as of 2011. The population estimate as of 2023 is ...
Map of mineral deposits in West Bengal. West Bengal stands third in India in terms of mineral production by state, contributing about one-fifth of the total mineral production of the country. Coal constitutes 99% of the minerals extracted in West Bengal. West Bengal is the third largest state for coal production, accounting for about half of ...
At the time of its creation in 1947, the state of West Bengal was divided into 14 districts—Bankura, Birbhum, Burdwan, Calcutta (Kolkata), Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Hooghly, Howrah, Malda, Midnapore, Murshidabad, Nadia, West Dinajpur and 24 Parganas. [3] Cooch Behar district was a princely state named Koch Bihar till 20 August 1949, when the ...
Saifuddin Choudhury. Communist Party of India (Marxist) Krishnagar. Renu Pada Das. Communist Party of India (Marxist) Malda. A.B.A. Ghani Khan Choudhury. Indian National Congress.
Bengal [a] ( Bengali: বঙ্গ, romanized :Bôṅgo, pronounced [ˈbɔŋgo] ⓘ) or endonym Bangla ( Bengali: বাংলা, romanized :Bāṅlā, pronounced [ˈbaŋlaˑ] ⓘ) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
Chandannagar. / 22.87; 88.38. Chandannagar ( pronounced [tʃɔnd̪ɔn.nɔɡoɾ]; French: Chandernagor, pronounced [ʃɑ̃dɛʁ.nagɔʁ] ), also known by its former names Chandernagore and Chandernagor, is a city in the Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is headquarter of the Chandannagore subdivision and part of the area ...
hooghly .nic .in. hcm .net .in. Hugli-Chuchura ( pronounced [ɦuɡli-tʃutʃuɽa] ), also known by its former names Chinsurah or Hooghly-Chinsurah, is a city of Hooghly district and the district headquarters of Hooghly division in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is one of the densely populated cities of West Bengal.
2370 [1] The Sundarbans National Park is a national park in West Bengal, India, and core part of tiger reserve and biosphere reserve. It is part of the Sundarbans on the Ganges Delta and adjacent to the Sundarban Reserve Forest in Bangladesh. It is located to south-west of Bangladesh. The delta is densely covered by mangrove forests, and is one ...