Wast Bengal

West Bengal পশ্চিমবঙ্গ
State
Location o Wast Bengal in Indie
Map o Wast Bengal
Kintra	Indie
Region	East Indie
Established	1 November 1956
Caipital	Kolkata
Lairgest ceety Largest metro	Kolkata
Destricts	19 total
Govrenment
• Govrenor	M. K. Narayanan
• Chief Meenister	Mamata Banerjee (TMC)
• Legislatur	Unicameral (295* seats)
Area
• Total	88752 km2 (34,267 sq mi)
Area rank	13th
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	91,347,736
• Rank	4t
• Density	1,000/km2 (2,700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
ISO 3166 code	IN-WB
HDI	0.625 (medium)
HDI rank	19th (2005)
Literacy	77.08%[2]
Offeecial leids	Bengali · Inglis
Website	westbengal.gov.in
^* 294 electit, 1 nominatit

West Bengal (/bɛŋˈɡɔːl/) is a state in the eastren region o Indie an is the naition's fowert-maist populous.^[3] It is the seivent-maist populous sub-naitional entity in the warld an aw, wi ower 91 million indwallers.^[3] Wast Bengal encompasses twa broad naitural regions: the Gangetic Plain in the sooth an the sub-Himalayan an Himalayan aurie in the north.

1. ↑ "Area, population, decennial growth rate and density for 2001 and 2011 at a glance for West Bengal and the districts: provisional population totals paper 1 of 2011: West Bengal". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 26 Januar 2012.
2. ↑ "Sex ratio, 0–6 age population, literates and literacy rate by sex for 2001 and 2011 at a glance for West Bengal and the districts: provisional population totals paper 1 of 2011: West Bengal". Government of India:Ministry of Home Affairs. Retrieved 29 Januar 2012.
3. ↑ ^{a b} "India: Administrative Divisions (population and area)". Census of India. Archived frae the original on 17 December 2012. Retrieved 17 Apryle 2009.