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Cooch Behar is the district headquarters and the largest town of Cooch Behar District of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayan Foothills and located at . Cooch Behar is a well-planned town and an important tourist place of West Bengal. The town is famous for the Cooch Behar Palace and Madan Mohan Bari. It has also been declared a heritage town.
During the British Raj, the town of Cooch Behar was the seat of the princely state of Koch Bihar, ruled by the Koch dynasty. In course of time, Cooch Behar has been transformed from a kingdom to a ztate and then from a state to the present status of a district, and the town of Cooch Behar its district headquarters. Before 28 August 1949, Cooch Behar was a princely ptate ruled by the king of Cooch Behar, who had been a feudatory ruler under British Government.
