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West Bengal

Indian state
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Summary

West Bengal is a state of India[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of state of india entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,172 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: India[3]
  • Country: India[4]
  • Head of government: Mamata Banerjee[5]
  • Head of state: C. V. Ananda Bose[6]
  • Capital: Kolkata[7]
  • Official language: Bangla[8], English[9], Nepali[10], Hindi[11], Odia[12], Punjabi[13], Santali[14], Urdu[15], Rangpuri[16], Rajbanshi[17], Kudmali[18], Kurukh[19], Telugu[20]
  • Shares border with: Assam[21], Sikkim[22], Bihar[23], Odisha[24], Jharkhand[25], Rajshahi Division[26], Rangpur Division[27], Khulna Division[28]
  • Named after: west[29], Bengal[30]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Burdwan division[31], Jalpaiguri division[32], Malda division[33], Medinipur division[34], Presidency division[35]
  • Legislative body: West Bengal Legislative Assembly[36]
  • Executive body: Council of Ministers of West Bengal[37]
  • Commons category: West Bengal[38]
  • Licence plate code: WB[39]
  • Located in time zone: Indian Standard Time[40]
  • Inception: January 26, 1950[41]
  • Highest point: Sandakpu[42]
  • Official website: https://www.wb.gov.in[43]
  • Topic's main category: Category:West Bengal[44]
  • Population: 91,276,115[45], 80,176,197[46]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:West Bengal[47]
  • Office held by head of government: Chief Minister of West Bengal[48]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2[49]
  • Replaces: Bengal Presidency[50]
  • Official name: পশ্চিমবঙ্গ[51], West Bengal[52]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in West Bengal[53]

Why It Matters

West Bengal has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]

Related Entities

Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute Govdirectory Hooghly River India Institute of Language Studies and Research Krishnendu Chatterjee Mamata Banerjee National Institute of Biomedical Genomics Sangamitra Bandopadhyay Slovakia West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wb.gov.in. wb.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wb.gov.in. wb.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  47. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  48. [50] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  49. [51] ↑ . wb.gov.in. wb.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  50. [52] ↑ . Constitution of India. wb.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  51. [53] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [54] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [55] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 21w ago · Sbb1413 · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Head of state → Jagdeep Dhankhar, C. V. Ananda Bose
    Demonym → West Bengali
    Head of government → Mamata Banerjee, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
    Most populous urban area → Kolkata
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Coat of arms image: Emblem of West Bengal (2026).png"
  2. 22w ago · Sbb1413 · 2026-05-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1950-01-26T00:00:00Z
    Executive body → Council of Ministers of West Bengal
    Highest judicial authority → Q1026391
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Head of government: Mamata Banerjee"
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