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The journey is 12.5 hours long, 80 km (50 mi) from India side and 300 km (186 mi) into Bangladesh. [2] From India to Bangladesh there are services also provided by private comfortable a/c buslines (using Volvo and other luxurious Intercity bus transports) via the Haridaspur, North 24 Parganas / Benapole border post.
The Radcliffe Line was published on 17 August 1947 as a boundary demarcation line between the dominions of India and Pakistan upon the partition of India.It was named after its architect, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who, as chairman of the Border Commissions, was charged with equitably dividing 450,000 square kilometres (175,000 sq mi) of territory with 88 million people based on religious lines. [2]
It runs roughly 3,655 km (2,271 mi) [2] from Teknaf, Bangladesh on the border with Myanmar [4] [5] west to Kabul, Afghanistan, passing through Chittagong and Dhaka in Bangladesh, Kolkata, Kanpur, Agra, Aligarh, Delhi, Amritsar in India, and Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Peshawar in Pakistan.
Dawki Integrated Check Post or Dawki border crossing is on Dawki-Tamabil is one of the few road border crossings between India and Bangladesh in West Jaintia Hills district in the state of Meghalaya, India, the corresponding post in Bangladesh is Tamabil post.
India shares land borders with six sovereign nations. The state's Ministry of Home Affairs also recognizes a 106 kilometres (66 mi) land border with a seventh nation, Afghanistan, as part of its claim on the Kashmir region; however, this is disputed and the region bordering Afghanistan has been administered by Pakistan as part of Gilgit-Baltistan since 1947 (see Durand Line).
It is a part of the historic Jessore Road which runs from Shyambazar in North Kolkata to Jessore in Bangladesh. NH 112 originates from National Highway 12 at Barasat Dak bangalow More and ends at Petrapole near Bangaon, traversing the district of North 24 Parganas. Its eastward continuation, N706 extends to Jessore District in Bangladesh.
The partition of India led to the formation of the Siliguri Corridor through the creation of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) after the partition of Bengal (into East Bengal and West Bengal) in 1947–1948. [3] The Kingdom of Sikkim formerly lay on the northern side of the corridor, until its union with India in 1975 via a publicly held referendum.
Map of Bangladesh, with Myanmar to the south-east. The Bangladesh–Myanmar border is the international border between the countries of Bangladesh and Myanmar (formerly Burma). [2] The border stretches 271.0 kilometres (168.4 miles), from the tripoint with India in the north to the Bay of Bengal in the south. [3]