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East India
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geographic region, group of eastern Indian states
Key facts
- Country
- India
- States and union territories
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands Bihar Jharkhand Odisha West Bengal
- Other states sometimes included
- Chhattisgarh
- Largest city
- Kolkata
- Most populous cities 2011
- Bihar: Patna Gaya Bhagalpur Muzaffarpur Bihar Sharif /Udantapuri Jharkhand: Jamshedpur Dhanbad Ranchi Bokaro Steel City Deoghar Odisha: Bhubaneswar Cuttack Rourkela Berhampur Sambalpur West Bengal: Kolkata Asansol Siliguri Durgapur Bardhaman
- Total
- 418,323 km (161,515 sq mi)
- Density
- 542.464/km (1,404.98/sq mi)
- Time zone
- IST ( UTC+5:30 )
- Official languages
- Bengali Bhojpuri English Hindi Maithili Nepali Odia Santali Urdu Nagpuri
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region
- Has part
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Country
- India
- Located in
- India
- Area
- 418323
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- East India
- different from
- East Indies
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Encyclopedic overview
East India is a region consisting of the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal and also the union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Chhattisgarh is sometimes included, due to its geographical proximity and cultural and economic integration with the Eastern region.
The states of Bihar and West Bengal lie on the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Jharkhand is situated on the Chota Nagpur Plateau. Odisha lies on the Eastern Ghats and the Deccan Plateau. West Bengal's capital Kolkata is the largest city of this region. The Kolkata Metropolitan Area is the country's third largest metropolitan region. The region is bounded by Bhutan, Nepal and the state of Sikkim in the north, the states of Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on the west, the state of Andhra Pradesh in the south and the country of Bangladesh in the east. It is also bounded by the Bay of Bengal in the south-east. It is connected to the Seven Sister States of Northeast India by the narrow Siliguri Corridor in the north east of West Bengal. East India has the fourth-largest gross domestic product of all Indian regions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “East India” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.