Cooch Behar
Americannoun
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a former state in NE India; now part of West Bengal.
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a city in West Bengal, in NE India.
noun
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a former state of NE India: part of West Bengal since 1950
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a city in India, in NE West Bengal: capital of the former state of Cooch Behar. Pop: 76 812 (2001)
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Border districts with Bangladesh - North 24-Parganas, Nadia, Murshidabad, Malda, Uttar Dinajpur and Cooch Behar - also saw heavy deletions.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Northern parts of neighbouring West Bengal state have also been affected as water from the Teesta inundated Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri districts.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2023
They'd been traveling all night with the help of a smuggler and had finally reached the Anantapur border in the Cooch Behar district of northern India.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2020
The princely state of Cooch Behar, which like other princely states had not been part of British India, joined independent India in 1949 and was absorbed into the Indian state of West Bengal.
From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2011
My next visitor was Prince Jitendra Narayen, now through the death of his eldest brother Maharajah of Cooch Behar.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon
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