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Language

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

"Bengali is the 5th most spoken language in the world."

"It is also the seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world."

One (or both) of these must be wrong! Does the first need qualifying with "native speakers" or "first language speakers" or something like that? (I don't know myself.)

Hundovir (talk) 11:37, 28 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 21 October 2025

Latest comment: 9 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

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Change the status of "Arunachal Pradesh" in the map, on image 2/57 of Wikipedia's page on Bengal, from "India" to "Disputed" or "Disputed between India and China". While India does maintain control of the state of Arunachal Pradesh, it is also disputed by the PRC to be "South Tibet" and part of the Tibet Autonomous region in the PRC. The PRC does not recognize the McMahon line, which serves as the current border between India and the PRC as recognized by the Republic of India. Sap56 (talk) 18:16, 21 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. The map is an image from Wikimedia Commons and cannot be edited directly. Day Creature (talk) 19:44, 21 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 10 December 2025

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Change "(formerly- Orissa)" to "(formerly Orissa)" Mohananshuman (talk) 16:11, 10 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Done Day Creature (talk) 17:17, 10 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Bengal Region Map

Latest comment: 3 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

@SolaymanGazi50plus Why do you keep removing the map of the Bengal region? In addition to Bangladesh and West Bengal, the Bengal region also includes Bengali-speaking areas of Tripura, Assam, Odisha, Jharkhand, and Bihar. Rizwan (talk) 18:34, 8 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

A page that knows where it met you.

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Semi-protected edit request on 21 October 2025

Semi-protected edit request on 10 December 2025

Bengal Region Map