Bay of Bengal

Fishing boat off St. Martin, an island of Bangladesh

The Bay of Bengal ( Bengali: বঙ্গোপসাগর baṅgopasāgar; Indonesian Teluk Benggala; Hindi: बंगाल की खाड़ी Bangal ki Khari; Malaysian Teluk Bengal; Thai: อ่าว เบงกอล ) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean with an area of about 2.171 million km ². It is 2090 km long and up to 1610 km wide, and has roughly the shape of a triangle. The Golf is an average of 2,600 meters and a maximum of 4694 meters deep. It separates the land mass of the Indian subcontinent from the Indochina Peninsula. The climate is dominated by monsoons. Characteristics of the region are in particular a number of mud volcanoes and the largest mangrove forests in the world, such as the Sundarbans.

The Bay of Bengal is bounded consisting of the state of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal as well as in eastern Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia in the west of Sri Lanka and India, in the north of the eponymous region of Bengal. In the south it is connected with the Indian Ocean. As approximate delineation of the Gulf can an imaginary line between the southern tip of Sri Lanka and the northern tip of Sumatra island belonging to Indonesia will be accepted.

Islands

Particularly on the coasts numerous island groups are upstream, but without forming substantial bays outside the estuaries. Therefore, there are few natural harbors on the coasts. In the eastern part of the island groups of Andaman and Nicobar Islands separate the Andaman Sea from the sea bordering the Gulf. Great Andaman is the largest island of the Andaman Islands, the east is a group in front of smaller islands, the Ritchie's Archipelago. Among the islands of Myanmar include the Mergui Archipelago and Cheduba. To the west of the Bay of Bengal on the main island of Sri Lanka.

Geology

The golf is in the range of higher tectonic plate activity. The Indian plate, part of the great Indo -Australian Plate is moving slowly to the northeast and slides under the Burma microplate. Effects which are volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

Ports

Chittagong and Mongla in Bangladesh, Chennai (Madras ) and Kolkata ( Calcutta) in India and Yangon ( Rangoon ) in Myanmar, are the largest ports. More Indian ports are in:

Ganges Brahmaputra River Farther India Cheduba Island Burma Plate

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