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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Bay of Bengalnoun

    an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India

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  1. Bay of Bengalnoun

    A sea that forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean.

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  1. Bay of Bengal

    The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line between Sangaman Kanda, Sri Lanka, and the north westernmost point of Sumatra, Indonesia. It is the largest water region called a bay in the world. There are countries dependent on the Bay of Bengal in South Asia and Southeast Asia. During the existence of British India, it was named the Bay of Bengal after the historic Bengal region. At the time, the Port of Kolkata served as the gateway to the Crown rule in India. Cox's Bazar, the longest sea beach in the world and Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest and the natural habitat of the Bengal tiger, are located along the bay. The Bay of Bengal occupies an area of 2,600,000 square kilometres (1,000,000 sq mi). A number of large rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal: the Ganges–Hooghly, the Padma, the Brahmaputra–Yamuna, the Barak–Surma–Meghna, the Irrawaddy, the Godavari, the Mahanadi, the Brahmani, the Baitarani, the Krishna and the Kaveri.

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  1. bay of bengal

    The Bay of Bengal is a large body of water in the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. It is bordered by India and Sri Lanka to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the east. Covering an area of over 2.1 million square kilometers, it is the largest bay in the world.

Wikidata

  1. Bay of Bengal

    The Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world, forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Roughly triangular in shape, it is bordered mostly by India and Sri Lanka to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Burma and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the east. The Bay of Bengal occupies an area of 2,172,000 km². A number of large rivers – the Ganges and its distributaries such as Padma and Hooghly, the Brahmaputra and its distributaries such as Jamuna and Meghna, other rivers such as Irrawaddy River, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna and Kaveri flow into the Bay of Bengal. Among the important ports are Chennai, Vizag, Tuticorin, Paradip, Kolkata,Chittagong and Yangon.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bay of bengal in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bay of bengal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of bay of bengal in a Sentence

  1. Md Shahnewaz Khan:

    Three years ago, Popy and her family migrated from an island in the Bay of Bengal to the slums.

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