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A spinner dolphin in Bay of Bengal Tachypleus gigas in Odisha. The Bay of Bengal is full of biological diversity, diverging amongst coral reefs, estuaries, fish spawning and nursery areas, and mangroves. The Bay of Bengal is one of the World's 64 largest marine ecosystems. Kerilia jerdonii is a sea snake of the Bay of Bengal.
Bay of Bengal location map simple.svg Module:Location map/data/Bay of Bengal is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on equirectangular map of Bay of Bengal . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
English: A basic map of the Bay of Bengal intended for use with locator templates. Latitude extent: 31 to -4, longitude: 73.2 to 107. The coordinate system used is the equirectangular WGS 1984 (it makes it very easy to handle with the locator templates, but it's not really suitable for other uses).
The Maldives depended on the Bay of Bengal for its huge shell currency trade. [10] In the 16th century, the Portuguese empire began traversing the sea routes of the Bay of Bengal. Portuguese maps referred to the bay as the "Gulf of Bengal". [11] The Burmese Empires and the Kingdom of Mrauk U were major powers in the Bay of Bengal.
A gulf in geography is a large bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea. Not all geological features which could be considered a gulf have "Gulf" in the name, for example the Bay of Bengal or Arabian Sea. [1] [2]
The Southern limits of the Arabian Sea [I 1] and the Lakshadweep Sea, [I 2] the Southern limit of the Bay of Bengal, [I 3] the Southern limits of the East Indian Archipelago, [I 4] and the Southern limit of the Great Australian Bight. [I 5] On the West. From Cape Agulhas in 20° long. East, Southward along this meridian to the Antarctic ...
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Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms in Southeast Asia depended on the Bay of Bengal for trade and ideas. Islam in Southeast Asia also spread through the Bay of Bengal, which was a bridge between the Malay Archipelago and Indo-Islamic states of the Indian subcontinent. [113] [114] A large number of wealthy merchants from Bengal were based in Malacca. [47]