West Bengal (ind)

West Bengal

West Bengal ranks 7,781st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Richboro, Pennsylvania, Haderslev, and San Pedro, Los Angeles. Memorable people born in West Bengal include Amala Akkineni, and Parvathy Baul. Memorable people who died in West Bengal include Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. West Bengal has been the birth place of many actors, and singers and the death place of many physicists. West Bengal is located in India.

West Bengal 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 km2 (34,267 sq mi) as of 2011. The population estimate as of 2023 is 102,552,787. West Bengal is the fourth-most populous and thirteenth-largest state by area in India, as well as the eighth-most populous country subdivision of the world. As a part of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata, the third-largest metropolis, and seventh largest city by population in India. West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, the coastal Sundarbans and the Bay of Bengal. The state's main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with the Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority. Read more on Wikipedia