North Bengal (Bengali: উত্তর বঙ্গ) is a term used for the northern parts of West Bengal . It includes the six districts of Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur and Malda. The region shares its borders with Bihar and Nepal in the east, Sikkim and Bhutan in the north, Assam and Bangladesh in the east and is divided with the rest of West Bengal by the river Ganga to the south .
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