District de Paschim MedinipurPaschim Medinipur district is one of the districts of the state of West Bengal, India. It was formed on 1 January 2002 after the Partition of Midnapore into Paschim Medinipur and Purba Medinipur. On 4 April 2017, the Jhargram subdivision was converted into a district. GDP of West Midnapore district is 12 billion USD. Paschim Medinipur, located in the south-western part of West Bengal, was created with the partition of the erstwhile Midnapore district, then the largest district of India, on 1 January 2002.
District de BankuraBankura district (Pron: bãkuɽa) is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is part of Medinipur division—one of the five administrative divisions of West Bengal. Bankura district is surrounded by Purba Bardhaman district and Paschim Bardhaman district in the north, Purulia district in the west, Jhargram district and Paschim Medinipur district in the south, and some part of Hooghly district in the east. Damodar River flows in the northern part of Bankura district and separates it with the major part of Burdwan district.
BengaliLe bengali ou bangla (bn, ) est une langue indo-iranienne (sous-branche indo-aryenne) de la famille des langues indo-européennes. Avec l'assamais, il s'agit de la plus orientale des langues indo-européennes.
District de HooghlyHooghly district (ˈhu:gliː) is one of the districts of the Indian state of West Bengal. It can alternatively be spelt Hoogli or Hugli. The district is named after the Hooghly River. The headquarters of the district are at Hooghly-Chinsura (Chuchura). There are four subdivisions: Chinsurah Sadar, Srirampore, Chandannagore, and Arambagh. The district of Hooghly derived its name from the town of Hooghly on the west bank of the Hugli River about 40 km north of Kolkata. This town was a major river port for trade in India before colonialism.
DâmodarDamodar River (Pron: /ˈdʌmoˌdaː/) is a river flowing across the Indian states of Jharkhand and West Bengal. The valley is rich in mineral resources and is home to large-scale mining and industrial activity. It was also known as the Sorrow of Bengal because of its ravaging floods in the plains of West Bengal. The construction of several dams on the Damodar and its tributaries has helped control some of the flooding. Damodar means "rope around the belly", derived from Sanskrit दाम (dama) "rope" and उदर (udara) "belly".
Rarh regionRarh region (raːɽ) is a toponym for an area in the Indian subcontinent that lies between the Chota Nagpur Plateau on the West and the Ganges Delta on the East. Although the boundaries of the region have been defined differently according to various sources throughout history, it is mainly coextensive with the state of West Bengal, also comprising parts of the state of Jharkhand in India. Linguistically, the region is defined with population speaking the Rarhi local Bengali dialect.
District de PuruliaPurulia district (Pron: puruliːaː) is one of the twenty-three districts of West Bengal state in Eastern India. Purulia is the administrative headquarters of the district. Some of the other important towns of Purulia district are Raghunathpur-Adra, Jhalda, Anara and Balarampur. The territory of present Purulia district was a part of Banga, one of the 16 Mahajanapadas according to Jaina Bhagavati Sutra (c. fifth century CE) and was also a part of the country known as Vajra-bhumi in ancient period.
Midnapore(ou Medinipur) est une ville d'Inde, chef-lieu du district de Paschim Medinipur, dans l'état du Bengale-Occidental. En 2011, sa population était de . La ville s'appelle মেদিনীপুর (Mēdinīpura) en bengali. Il y a plusieurs explications contradictoires quant à l'origine de ce nom. Certaines sources affirment qu'une divinité locale nommée (mère du monde), une incarnation de Shakti, est à l'origine du nom de la ville. D'autres sources affirment que Midnapore a été nommée ainsi car nombre de mosquées qu'elle contenait était comparable à celui de Médine.
District de BardhamanBardhaman district (ˈbɑ:rdəˌmən, ˈbɔrˌdɦoman; also spelled Burdwan or Barddhaman or Vardhaman) was a district in West Bengal. On 7 April 2017, the district was bifurcated into two districts: Purba Bardhaman and Paschim Bardhaman district. The headquarters of the district was Bardhaman, and it housed the cities of Asansol and Durgapur. Indian revolutionary Rashbehari Bose was born in village Subaldaha, Bardhaman district. Bengali poet Kumud Ranjan Mullick was born at Kogram and poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was born at Churulia in the same district.
Bengale-OccidentalLe Bengale-Occidental (en পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, Pôshcimbônggô ; en पश्चिम बंगाल Paścim Baṅgāl, ; West Bengal) est un État du nord-est de l'Inde. Comptant plus de 91 millions d'habitants en 2011 sur une superficie de , il s'agit du quatrième État le plus peuplé de l'Inde et de l'un des plus denses avec , soit trois fois la moyenne nationale (et comparable avec celle du Bangladesh adjacent). Il fait partie de la région ethnolinguistique du Bengale du sous-continent indien, à la frontière entre le Bangladesh à l'est, et le Népal et le Bhoutan au nord.
