Siliguri

Siliguri lies in the Terai at the foot of the eastern Himalayas, where the Mahananda crosses the plains and the Teesta flows to the east. Forests and rivers mark the country between the hills of Sikkim and Bhutan and the Bengal lowlands. Routes through this foothill region linked the uplands to the plains, and river traffic carried goods between the two. Nepal took the area in 1788 during the expansion of its Himalayan kingdom.