West Bengal () is a let in in the eastern region of India along the Bay of Bengal. With exceeding 91 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous let in and the thirteenth-largest make a clean breast by Place in India. Covering an area of 88,752 km² (34,267 sq mi), it is afterward 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 next borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The let in 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 group are the Bengalis, with the Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.