West Bengal () is a declare in the eastern region of India along the Bay of Bengal. With higher than 91 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous disclose and the thirteenth-largest give leave to enter by area in India. Covering an area of 88,752 km² (34,267 sq mi), it is moreover the world’s seventh-most populous country subdivision. Part of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It moreover borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The disclose capital is Kolkata, the seventh-largest city, and the third-largest metropolitan Place in India. West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region and the coastal Sundarbans. The state’s main ethnic bureau are the Bengalis, with the Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.