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West Bengal

With Bangladesh on the eastern border of this state, it is situated in the eastern part of the Republic Of India. West Bengal is the name of state which has a great importance and an important role to play in the economic growth of the country. Kolkata is the largest city in the whole state and also the capital. Total of 19 districts are there, which combine to form the state of West Bengal.

With the population of almost 80,221,171, it stands at the 4th position as a whole. Those 19 districts are the reason of this growth in the population, however, there are some other states which consists of greater number of districts but their population is not as large as the area they covers, but, with West Bengal, that is not the case. With not so large area, it has a lot of population, hence, rated as the densely populated state of the country.

However, it still has a great importance as a whole. It is one of the dependent states pertaining to agriculture that is one of the reasons of its importance, as it serves the whole country with the output it generates from the agriculture products. Tea is another product that is produced here. Manufacturing industries are playing a most important role in the economic growth of the state as well as for India, these industries consists of steel, leather, textiles, jewelry, automobile and the list goes on as there are some large number of products manufactured here in the state.

West Bengal has gone through a lot of historic and golden times that was the time when there were empires and kingdoms of different rulers and kings. That is one of the reasons that it is quite rich considering those eras of kingdoms. In the field of arts, there have been a lot of big names. All of the cities have some of the specialty that separates them from the rest, for instance, Kolkata is one of the city that will provide you all sorts of information and entertainment at the same time. There are clubs, shopping centers and a lot of buildings that will provide you some fine details about those past days.