Bay of Bengal



"The Bay of Bengal... the threat of the Bengali nation. The threat of the Bengal region. The threat to most of the eastern parts of South Asia. While this storm is blowing us all away, we were fighting off these Chinese and Sentinelese bastards who get into our way."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Sink or Swim

The Bay of Bengal (Bengali: বঙ্গোপসাগর [bɔŋgopoʃagoɾ], is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and north by India and Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India). Its southern limit is a line between Sri Lanka and the northwesternmost point of Sumatra (Indonesia). It is the largest water region called a bay in the world. There are countries dependent on the Bay of Bengal in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

The Bay of Bengal occupies an area of 2,172,000 square kilometers (839,000 square miles). A number of large rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal: the Ganges, the Padma, the Jamuna, the Meghna, the Irrawaddy, the Godavari, the Mahanadi, the Brahmani, the Baitarani, the Krishna and the Kaveri. Among the important ports are Chennai, Chittagong, Colombo, Kolkata, Mongla, Paradip Port, Port Blair, Tuticorin, Visakhapatnam and Yangon. Among the smaller ports are Dhamra, Kakinada and Payra.