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The city of Visakhapatnam in India is a major port of the Bay of Bengal. Indian ports on the bay include Paradip Port , Kolkata Port , Haldia Port , Chennai Port , Visakhapatnam Port , Kakinada Port , Pondicherry Port , Dhamra Port , and Gopalpur-on-Sea .
[citation needed] Ptolemy's map refers to the Bay of Bengal as the Gulf of the Ganges. [6] Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms in Southeast Asia depended on the Bay of Bengal for trade and cultural exchange. The South Indian Chola dynasty dominated the region in the 11th century, with records describing the Bay of Bengal as Chola's Lake. [7]
Tamralipta or Tamralipti (Pali: Tāmaliti) was an ancient port city and capital of Suhma kingdom in ancient India, located on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. [1] The Tamluk town in present-day Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, is generally identified as the site of Tamralipti. [2] It was located near the Rupnarayan river.
Home to the Port of Chittagong, it is the busiest port in Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. [9] The city is also known as the business capital of Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of an eponymous division and district. The city is located on the banks of the Karnaphuli River between the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the Bay of Bengal. The ...
This ancient kingdom and port city was bounded by the Bay of Bengal in the south, Rupnarayan River in the east and Subarnarekha River in the west. The Rupnarayana is the joint flow of the rivers Dwarakeswar and Silai.
Puri, also known as, Jagannath Puri, (Odia: ⓘ) is a coastal city and a municipality in the state of Odisha in eastern India.It is the district headquarters of Puri district and is situated on the Bay of Bengal, 60 kilometres (37 mi) south of the state capital of Bhubaneswar.
Port Blair (pronunciation ⓘ), officially named Sri Vijaya Puram, [4] is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is also the local administrative sub-division of the islands, the headquarters for the district of South Andaman, and the territory's only notified town.
Kakinada (listen ⓘ; formerly known as Cocanada) is a port city and municipal corporation in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. [8] Situated along the Bay of Bengal, it serves as the headquarters of Kakinada district and is a prominent economic and cultural centre in the region.