

Apart from Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Manipur, and Assam's Barak Valley, Bengali-majority populations also reside in India's union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with significant populations in the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Uttarakhand as well as Nepal's Province No.

Thus, they are the largest ethnic group within the Indo-Europeans. Most of them speak Bengali, a language from the Indo-Aryan language family.īengalis are the third-largest ethnic group in the world, after the Han Chinese and Arabs. The native population is divided between the independent country Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam's Barak Valley and parts of Manipur. The Bengali people ( Bengali: বাঙ্গালী/বাঙালি ( listen)), also formerly known as Bangalee, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.
