Ben·gal (b n-gôl , bng-, bng l, bng-) A region of eastern India and Bangladesh. It was a province of India until 1947, when the eastern part became East Pakistan, and later (1971) Bangladesh, and the western section was included in independent India. Ben  ga·lese (bng-l z, -ls, bng-) adj. & n. |
| Bengal, Bay of An arm of the Indian Ocean bordered by Sri Lanka and India on the west, Bangladesh on the north, and Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand on the east. |
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