Bihar was established in 2015. The Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bhagalpur, was established in 2017. Bihar Bihar (; ) is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern and Northern India. It is the thirteenth-largest Indian state, with an area of . The third-largest state by population, it is contiguous with Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Bengal to the east, with Jharkhand to the south. The Bihar plain is split by the river Ganges, which flows from west to east. Bihar is an amalgamation of three distinct regions: Magadh,
Provinces of Portugal referred to as "províncias" (). Each comarca was headed by an administrative and judicial magistrate, which represented Royal power in each jurisdiction of the country. These magistrates were, initially, called "tenents" (), later "meirinhos-mores" and finally, "corregedores". These six comarcas, with some changes, would be maintained as the principal administrative division of country until the 19th century. Around the 17th Century, the provinces were subdivided into individual "comarcas" or "correições" (), with their own "corregedor" (), and the provinces, as an administrative and civic role, began to be used as a statistical unit. Meanwhile, at the same time that its