Ben: বনগাঁ banagām̐
‘Forest Village’ [Bongaon] City, West Bengal
From Ben/Skt: bana/vana, ‘forest’; and Ben: grāma→ gaon, ‘village’, ‘(small) town’.
The Bangladesh-India border checkpoint at Petrapole is 6km away.
It is the largest inland customs station in Asia, accounting for $2bn of the trade with Bangladesh (about 800 trucks a day).
Bangaon Bridge sushanta mohanta sindrani