West Bengal () is a acknowledge in the eastern region of India along the Bay of Bengal. With over 91 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous declare and the thirteenth-largest state by Place in India. Covering an area of 88,752 km² (34,267 sq mi), it is then 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 afterward borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The give leave to enter capital is Kolkata, the seventh-largest city, and the third-largest metropolitan area 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 organization are the Bengalis, with the Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.