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West Bengal was created as a constituent state of the Indian union on 15th August 1947 as the result of partition of the undivided British Indian province of Bengal into West Bengal. West Bengal covers the bottleneck of India in the east,stretching from Himalayas in the
north to the Bay of Bengal in the south. It is bounded on the north by Sikkim and Bhutan, on the east by Assam and Bangladesh. On the south by the Bay of Bengal and on the west by
Orissa, Bihar and Nepal. It has therefore, three international frontiers-to the north, east and west.
West Bengal -
General Information
Area: 88,752 sq km;
Capital: Kolkata
Districts: 19
Language: Bengali, Hindi, English
Population: 68,077,965
Urban Population: 27.48%
Literacy: 57.7%
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