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Bay of Bengal

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Area
2.17M km²
Coordinates
15.0000, 88.0000
Category
oceans

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World's largest bay, bordering India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand.

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The Bay of Bengal forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, located between the Indian subcontinent and the Indochinese peninsula, south of the Bengal region. Spread across an area of 2,600,000 km2 (1,000,000 sq mi), it is bordered by many of the countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

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