Category:West Bengal

West Bengal
	Indian state Kolkata
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Instance of	state of India
Location	India
Capital	Kolkata;
Legislative body	West Bengal Legislative Assembly;
Executive body	Council of Ministers of West Bengal;
Official language	Bengali; English;
Head of state	Keshari Nath Tripathi;
Head of government	Mamata Banerjee (20 May 2011, All India Trinamool Congress, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee);
Inception	26 January 1950;
Population	91,347,736 (2011);
Area	88,752 km²;
Different from	West Bengal;
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	VIAF ID: 247646820; GND ID: 4079196-8; OSM relation ID: 1960177
	23° 00′ 00″ N, 88° 00′ 00″ E OpenStreetMap; Google Earth; Proximityrama;
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West Bengal (Bengali: পশ্চিমবঙ্গ Poshchim Bônggo) is a state in eastern India. With Bangladesh, which lies on its eastern border, the state forms the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal. To its northeast lie the states of Assam and Sikkim and the country Bhutan, and to its southwest, the state of Orissa. To the west it borders the states of Jharkhand and Bihar, and to the northwest, Nepal. The region that is now West Bengal was part of a number of empires and kingdoms during the past two thousand years. The British East India Company cemented their hold on the region in 1757, and the city of Calcutta, now Kolkata, served for many years as the capital of British India. A hotbed of the Indian independence movement through the early 20th century, Bengal was divided in 1947 along religious lines into two separate entities, West Bengal as a state of India, and East Bengal, a part of the new nation of Pakistan. Following India's independence in 1947, West Bengal's economic and political systems were dominated for many decades by Marxism, en:Naxalite movements and trade unionism.