Capital : Kolkatta
Language : Bengali and English
Airport : Calcutta, Bagdogra(Siliguri)
Tourist season : October to March.
Climate : Winter 14° C - 34° C; Summer 25° C - 36° C

West Bengal is the gateway to the east having special blend of the ancient and the modern. It's landscape is a variety of hills, plains and coastal areas. The state is long and narrow and is made up of the delta of the lower Ganges and the other rivers in the south and the mountainous region in the north. The state is home to some of the finest poets, writers and film makers

Tourist Attraction of West Bengal

CALCUTTA : the human city
The Ganges (called the Hooghly in Calcutta) is still the inspiration, as it was to Job Charnok, East India Company agent, who reached the shores in August 1690, to found the city. Calcutta, after London, was the British Empire’s second city.
Calcutta is a city of baffling paradoxes, a city that leaves its stamp on one's mind ... forever.

Darjeeling
Darjeeling, centre of India's most celebrated tea growing district, has possibly the most picturesque views among all Indian hill resorts. Outside the monsoon season (June to September), the views across the snowy peak of Kanchenjunga and other mountains down to the swollen rivers in the valley are, simply magnificent. Darjeeling has the unique feature of a toy train, which takes you from Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling through the steep mountainsides.

Sunderbans National Park & Tiger Reserve
Located in the Ganga delta in West Bengal, spanning the Hooghly in the west and Teulia river in the east, Sunderbans was declared a National Park in 1984. Sunderbans is home to the magnificent Royal Bengal tiger, the park holding more tigers than any other tiger reserve. More than 400 tigers were recorded during the mid-1980s. Crocodiles and the Gangetic dolphin are to be found aplenty in the Raimgangal river. The Sajnakhali sanctuary, famous for its rich avian population, is regarded as a part of the Sunderbans National Park.

Digha
187 km south east of Calcutta on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, Digha is a popular beach resort with a 6 km long beach. Fringed by graceful casuarina trees, Digha offers an enchanting view of the sunrise and sunset. The sea is calm and shallow for about a mile from the beach, making it quite safe for swimmers.

Bakkhali
132 km from Calcutta, quiet Bakkhali is the second popular sea resort of West Bengal.

Sagar
Site of the Gangasagar Mela, the largest fair in West Bengal, held on the occasion of Makara Sankranti, it draws lakhs of pilgrims from all over India. Sagar is 100 km from Calcutta.

Shantiniketan
Perhaps the only university of this kind in the world, Shantiniketan was the brain child of the great genius Rabindranath Tagore. This open air International University has emerged as a universal centre of excellence for scholars and students of Oriental culture. Despite a distinct slant towards humanities and performing arts, the university also has an excellent faculty for post graduate and research studies in science. Shantiniketan is 136 km from Calcutta.