eastern India

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Eastern India is a culturally diverse and historically rich region of the Indian subcontinent, encompassing states along the Bay of Bengal such as West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, and Jharkhand.

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eastern India canonical 257
Eastern India 78
East India 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf region of India
borders Bay of Bengal
country India
hasClimateType humid subtropical climate
tropical monsoon climate
hasCoastlineOn Bay of Bengal
hasCulturalCharacteristic high linguistic diversity
rich literary traditions
strong folk music and dance traditions
hasHistoricalSite Bodh Gaya
Gaur
Konark Sun Temple
Murshidabad
Nalanda
hasImportantAgriculturalProduct jute
oilseeds
pulses
rice
tea
hasImportantCoalfield Bokaro coalfield
Jharia coalfield
Raniganj coalfield
hasImportantCuisine Bengali cuisine
Bihari cuisine
Jharkhandi cuisine
Odia cuisine
hasImportantEcosystem Chota Nagpur Plateau
surface form: Chota Nagpur Plateau forests

Sundarbans
surface form: Sundarbans mangrove forest
hasImportantFestival Chhath Puja
Diwali
Durga Puja
Eid al-Fitr
Rath Yatra
hasImportantIndustrialArea Durgapur-Asansol industrial belt
Jamshedpur industrial region
Rourkela industrial region
hasImportantMineral bauxite
coal
iron ore
mica
hasImportantMountainRange Eastern Himalayas
hasImportantPort Haldia Port
Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata
surface form: Kolkata Port

Paradip Port
hasLargestCity Calcutta
surface form: Kolkata
hasMajorCity Bhubaneswar
Cuttack
Jamshedpur industrial region
surface form: Jamshedpur

Patna
Ranchi
hasMajorReligion Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Jainism
Sikhism
hasMajorRiver Subarnarekha River
surface form: Brahmani River

Ganges
Hooghly River
Mahanadi River
surface form: Mahanadi

Subarnarekha River
hasMajorTribe Ho
Munda
Santhal
surface form: Oraon

Santhal
hasMajorUniversity Jadavpur University
Patna University
Ranchi University
University of Calcutta
Utkal University
hasOfficialLanguage Bengali
Hindi
Maithili
Nepali
Odia
Santhali
surface form: Santali

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
hasSubregion Bengal region
Chota Nagpur Plateau
Magadh region
Orissa
surface form: Odisha region
hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite Konark Sun Temple
Bodh Gaya
surface form: Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya

Sundarbans
surface form: Sundarbans National Park
includesState Bihar
Jharkhand
Orissa
surface form: Odisha

Sikkim
West Bengal
includesUnionTerritory Andaman and Nicobar Islands
locatedIn South Asia
partOf South Asia
surface form: Indian subcontinent
timeZone Indian Standard Time

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