Bangladesh can be found on the Indian subcontinent.
Bangladesh . `` The country of Bengal '' ) , officially the People 's Republic of Bangladesh , is a country in South Asia . The Bengal Sultanate and Mughal Bengal transformed the region into a cosmopolitan Islamic imperial power between the 14th and 18th centuries . Bengal ( [ bɛŋˈɡɔːl ] বাংলা / বঙ্গ ) is a geopolitical , cultural and historical region in Asia , which is located in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal . The Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta ( also known as the Brahmaputra Delta , the Sunderbans Delta , or the Bengal Delta ) in Bangladesh and in West Bengal ( India ) is a river delta in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent , consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal . The history of Bengal includes modern-day Bangladesh and West Bengal in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent , at the apex of the Bay of Bengal and dominated by the fertile Ganges delta .