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Greater Bangladesh, or Great Bengal, is a political idea in Bangladesh to unite the region of Bengal. This includes the areas of West Bengal, Tripura, Meghalaya and parts of Assam.

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This is the historical map of united Bengal and Bengali speaking region of South Asia. The Bengal region lies in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, but there are highlands in its north, northeast, and southeast. Politically, Bengal is now divided between the sovereign Republic of Bangladesh, and India's West Bengal, Tripura, and Asam. This map region is the map of Bengal Sultanate before the Battle of Plassey. The United Bengal proposal was formally made by the Last Prime minister of British Ruled Bengal Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Bengali Nationalist Sharat Chandra Bose in 1947.

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