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Chicken’s Neck Corridor

Kumari Sonali

Chicken’s Neck Corridor:

Bangladesh has invited China to invest in a river conservation project close to the ‘Chicken’s Neck’ corridor – the link between India’s mainland and its seven northeastern States.

  • ‘Chicken’s Neck’, also known as the Siliguri Corridor, a narrow strip of land in West Bengal that connects India’s northeastern states to the rest of the country.
  • The corridor is situated in the northern part of West Bengal, spanning approximately 22 kilometres at its narrowest point.
  • It is flanked by Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the north, and Bangladesh to the south.
  • It links the North-eastern Region (NER), comprising eight states—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura—to mainland India.

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