West bengal - History 
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West Bengal was created as a constituent state of the Indian union on 15th August 1947 as the result of partition of the undivided British Indian province of Bengal into West Bengal. West Bengal covers the bottleneck of India in the east,stretching from Himalayas in the

north to the Bay of Bengal in the south. It is bounded on the north by Sikkim and Bhutan, on the east by Assam and Bangladesh. 

On the south by the Bay of Bengal and on the west by Orissa, Bihar and Nepal. It has therefore, three international frontiers-to the north, east and west. 

The state lies between 27o13'15" and 21o25'24" north latitudes and 85o48'20" and 89o53'04" east longitudes. 

West Bengal - General Information 

Area: 88,752 sq km; 
Districts: 19 
Language: Bengali, Hindi, English 
Population: 68,077,965 
Urban Population: 27.48% 
Literacy: 57.7%