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nouna region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India
Definition that contains bengal
- ganges an Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus
- burma a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal
- madras a city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras
- madras a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras
- bengali an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India
- chennai a city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras
- bengali (Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus)
- bengali of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people
- bengali a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal
- bangladesh a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971