Bengal is a geographical, ethnolinguistic, historically geopolitical region in South Asia, located north of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is politically divided between the sovereign state of Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and Karimganj district in the Indian state of Assam.
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| Subject | Bengal |
| Category | Region in the eastern Indian subcontinent |
| Reading time | 1 min · Advanced |
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