** Bengali New Year, or Pohela Boishakh ( Bangladesh and India's West Bengal state )

Many singers in West Bengal and Bangladesh base their entire careers on the singing of Tagore musical masterpieces.

The Teen Bigha Corridor is a strip of land formerly belonging to India on the West Bengal – Bangladesh border which has been leased indefinitely to Bangladesh so that it can access its Dehgram – Angalpota enclaves.

* Bengal ( now Bangladesh and West Bengal )

The real impetus though was provided by the partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon, the Governor-General of India, into East Bengal on the one hand ( the area that was eventually to become Bangladesh in 1971 ) and West Bengal and Orissa on the other.

West Bengal's narrow Siliguri Corridor or Chicken's Neck separate Nepal and Bangladesh.

* Bengali New Year ( Pôhela Boishakh or Bangla Nôbobôrsho ) is celebrated on the 1st of Boishakh ( 14 – 15 April ) in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.

Gaye holud ( literally " yellow on the body ") is a ceremony observed mostly in the region of Bengal ( comprising Bangladesh and Indian West Bengal ).

Due to political exclusion, ethnic and linguistic discrimination, as well as economic neglect by the politically dominant West Pakistan, popular agitation led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman grew against West Pakistan, resulting in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, which the Bengali people won with the support of India.

Vanga Kingdom ( also known as Banga ) was a kingdom located in the eastern part of the Indian Subcontinent, comprising part of West Bengal, India and present-day modern Bangladesh.

* The Muslim world of the Greater Middle East ( excluding Armenia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Georgia, Israel, Malta and South Sudan ), northern West Africa, Albania, Bangladesh, Brunei, Comoros, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Maldives.

Colocasia is thought to have originated in the Indo-Malayan region, perhaps in eastern India and Bangladesh, and spread eastward into Southeast Asia, eastern Asia, and the Pacific islands ; westward to Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean ; and then southward and westward from there into East Africa and West Africa, whence it spread to the Caribbean and Americas.

The Ganges / Brahmaputra combination delta spans most of Bangladesh and West Bengal, empties into the Bay of Bengal and is the world's largest delta.

Cannabis is grown throughout the Bengal region, which is currently split between Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ( also transliterated Caitanya, IAST ) ( 1486 – 1534 ) was a Vaishnava saint and social reformer in eastern India ( specifically present-day Bangladesh and states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Assam, and Orissa of India ) in the 16th century, worshipped by followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism as the full incarnation of Lord Krishna.

The British and Commonwealth forces came from the United Kingdom, British India ( which included present-day Pakistan and Bangladesh ), East Africa, West Africa, Australia, Malaya, Singapore, and elsewhere.

It has a widespread distribution in southern Asia, being native to Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Laccadive Islands, South West Thailand and coastal southern Iran.

After the Separation of East and West Pakistan in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, Bangladesh became the " People's Republic of Bangladesh.

While the word Taka was commonly used in East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ), alternatively for rupee, the two paise coin was called a taka in West Pakistan.

Headhunting was practised in historic times in parts of China, India, Nigeria, Nuristan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Borneo, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Micronesia, Melanesia, New Zealand, Mesoamerica, Southwestern United States and the Amazon Basin, as well as among certain tribes of the Celts, the West Germanic peoples, the Norse and Scythians of ancient Europe.

At the turn of the 21st century immigrants from Latin America, South Asia ( Bangladesh ), the West Indies and South America ( Indo-Guyanese & Indo-Surinamese ) have moved in, adding a diverse atmosphere to the neighborhood, which is especially apparent along 101st Avenue and Liberty Avenue near the neighborhood's border with Richmond Hill.

In 1971, Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan and East Bengal, seceded from Pakistan.

Outside the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company colonies or outposts were also established in Persia ( now Iran ), Bengal ( now Bangladesh and part of India ), Mauritius ( 1638-1658 / 1664-1710 ), Siam ( now Thailand ), Guangzhou ( Canton, China ), Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ), and southern India ( 1616 – 1795 ).

Often called the ' game of rural Bengal ', it is now the National Game of Bangladesh.

Library associations in Asia include the Indian Library Association ( ILA ), Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers ( IASLIC ), Bengal Library Association ( BLA ), Kolkata, Pakistan Library Association, the Pakistan Librarians Welfare Organization, the Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists, the Library Association of Bangladesh and the Sri Lanka Library Association ( founded 1960 ).

After a civil war, the Bengal region of East Pakistan, separated at a considerable distance from the rest of Pakistan, became the independent state of Bangladesh in 1971.

The Bengal tiger is the national animal of Bangladesh and India.

* The Bengal tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris ), also called the Indian tiger, lives in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, and is the most common subspecies with populations estimated at less than 2, 500 adult individuals.

The Bengal tiger is the national animal of India and Bangladesh.

** Bangladesh and eastern Bengal are flooded ; thousands flee the area.

The Ganges and the Brahmaputra meet in Bangladesh, and drain into the Bay of Bengal through the world's largest river delta.

The borders of present-day Bangladesh were established with the partition of Bengal and India in 1947, when the region became East Pakistan, part of the newly formed Islamic State of Pakistan.

His empire stretched from the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan to the present-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of Assam in the east, and as far south as northern Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

Finally on December 16, 1971, East Pakistan was officially disestablished and was succeeded as the independent state of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh quickly gained recognition from most countries and with the signing of the Shimla Agreement, most of the countries accepted the new state.

Finally, on 26 March 1971, Bangladesh emerged as an independent state.

Many Rohingya refugees, not recognised as an ethnic group and allegedly suffering abuse by the Burmese state, remain in Bangladesh, and have been threatened with forced repatriation to Burma.

With it slightly outranks Bangladesh or the state of Arkansas.

East Pakistan became the independent state of Bangladesh on 16 December 1971.

A cease fire was reached on December 16, leading to the creation of the independent state of Bangladesh.

Sheikh Mujib led the newly established People's Republic of Bangladesh as a one-party, dictatorial state.

In Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Bangladesh, the zakat is regulated by the state, but contributions are voluntary.

The history of Bangladesh as a nation state began in 1971, when it seceded from Pakistan.

While western Bangladesh, as part of Magadha, became part of the Indo-Aryan civilization by the 7th century BCE, the Nanda Dynasty was the first historical state to unify all of Bangladesh under Indo-Aryan rule.

In 1977, President Humayun Kabir amended the Constitution of Bangladesh, including a clause stating that " the state shall endeavour to consolidate, preserve and strengthen fraternal relations among Muslim countries based on Islamic solidarity ".

India was the first country to recognise Bangladesh as a separate and independent state, doing so on the 6th of December 1971, ten days before Bangladesh officially declared its independence.

:( Afghanistan ,' Bangladesh, and Pakistan do not recognise Israel as a state.

Bangladesh follows the same policy as other Muslim states, supporting an independent Palestinian state and an end to the occupation.

The Bangabandhu Primary School, named after the father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujib, a non-selective state community school, was opened in January 1989, moved to a new building in November 1991, and has over 450 pupils.

India has accused Pakistan of supporting the Khalistan movement in the past, to allegedly seek revenge against India for its help in creating Bangladesh and, according to India, to " destabilize " the Indian state.

As East Pakistan struggled to become the separate state of Bangladesh during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, the political and military turmoil and associated atrocities led to a massive refugee problem, with 7 million displaced people pouring into neighbouring India.