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[[File:Screen Shot 2017-01-29 at 8.36.08 AM.png|400px|thumb|right|Seas of the world: [[Mediterranean Sea]] (1), [[Red Sea]] (2), [[Black Sea]] (3), [[Caribbean Sea]] (4), [[Gulf of Mexico]] (5), [[Hudson Bay]] (6), [[Bering Sea]] (7), [[Tasman Sea]] (8), [[Coral Sea]] (9), Bay of Bengal (10), [[Arabian Sea]] (11), and [[North Sea]] (12)]] 
The Bay of Bengal is the largest bay in the world and forms the northeastern part of the [[Indian Ocean]]. Roughly triangular, it is bordered mostly by India and Sri Lanka to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Myanmar (Burma) and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) to the east.

The Bay of Bengal occupies an area of 2,172,000 square kilometres (839,000 sq mi). A number of large rivers – the Ganges and its tributaries such as the Padma and Hooghly, the Brahmaputra and its tributaries such as the Jamuna and Meghna, other rivers such as the Irrawaddy River, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna and Kaveri flow into the Bay of Bengal. Among the important ports are Chennai, Chittagong, Kolkata, Mongla, Paradip, Tuticorin, Visakhapatnam and Yangon.

==World's Seas==

The world [[sea]]s include [[Mediterranean Sea]] (1), [[Red Sea]] (2), [[Black Sea]] (3), [[Caribbean Sea]] (4), [[Gulf of Mexico]] (5), [[Hudson Bay]] (6), [[Bering Sea]] (7), [[Tasman Sea]] (8), [[Coral Sea]] (9), Bay of Bengal (10), [[Arabian Sea]] (11), and [[North Sea]] (12).

==Open Water Swimming==

*The [[Oceanman Langkawi]] event is on an [[Oceanman]] circuit in [[Langkawi Island]] in the [[Andaman Sea]] in Malaysia.  [[Langkawi]], officially known as [[Langkawi the Jewel of Kedah]], is an archipelago of 104 islands in the [[Andaman Sea]], 30 km off the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia.
*The [[International Bangla Channel Marathon Swim]] is a 16.1 km race across the [[Bangla Channel]] in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh.

==External links==

* [https://www.openwaterswimming.com/saiful-islam-rasel-completes-first-two-way-crossing-of-the-bangla-channel/ Saiful Islam Rasel Completes First Two-way Crossing Of The Bangla Channel]
* [https://openwaterswimming.com/2020/06/courtesy-of-wowsa-huntington-beach_99/ First Generation Of Bangla Channel Swimmers On WOWSA Live]
* [https://openwaterswimming.com/2020/06/the-history-of-bangla-channel-swimming-began-with-fazlul-kabir-sina-lipton-sarker-and-salman-saeed/ The History Of Bangla Channel Swimming Began With Fazlul Kabir Sina, Lipton Sarker, And Salman Saeed]
* [https://openwaterswimming.com/2018/03/the-history-of-bangla-channel/ The History Of The Bangla Channel]
* [https://www.facebook.com/BanglaChannelSwimming/?hc_ref=ARQp5csuZ9j56u9YZP1iIQ_gUh83UpW48GRLsPnaqZFp0hLp5mth0k35OVzd3_EjEeU Facebook page of Bangla Channel Swimming]
* [http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=226188 International Bangla Channel Marathon Swim]
* [http://www.openwaterswimming.com Open Water Swimming]
* [https://openwaterswimming.com/2012/03/international-bangla-channel-marathon/ International Bangla Channel Marathon Swim]
* [https://openwaterswimming.com/2012/02/short-list-of-long-marathon-swims/ List of Marathon Swims]
* [http://www.wowsa.org World Open Water Swimming Association]
* [https://openwaterswimming.com/2018/03/crossing-bangla-channel-on-march-19/ Crossing The Bangla Channel On March 19]
* [http://newsletter.parjatan.gov.bd/details/journey-of-the-bangla-channel Journey Of The Bangla Channel]

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