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Bengkulu (district)
Bengkulu (Propinsi Bengkulu, Bencoolen) is a province-level (ADM1) administrative division of Indonesia on Sumatra's west coast, capital Bengkulu City; established 18 November 1968 as the 26th province, with 9 regencies plus the city, 129 districts, and a British EIC colonial past from 1685.
Bengo Province
Bengo Province (Província do Bengo), Angolan province created 26 April 1980 from Luanda, seat Caxito, area 31,371 km², 716,335 residents in the 2024 census, governed by Maria Antónia Nelumba.
Bengt Baron
Bengt Baron (born 1962), Swedish swimmer and executive; Olympic gold, 100 m backstroke, Moscow 1980 (56.53), bronze 4x100 free relay 1984; later CEO of Absolut Vodka, V&S Group, and Cloetta.
Bengt Edlén
Bengt Edlén (1906–1993) was a Swedish atomic spectroscopist who solved the coronal-line riddle in 1941, showing the sun's corona is far hotter than its visible surface.
Bengt Holmström
Bengt Robert Holmström, born 1949 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish microeconomic theorist and MIT professor who won the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize for his contributions to contract theory.
Bengt I. Eriksson
Bengt I. Eriksson (Bengt Ingemar Eriksson) is a Swedish physician-scientist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg who led trials establishing desirudin, fondaparinux, and rivaroxaban for preventing thrombosis after hip surgery.
Bengt Morberg
Bengt Morberg (1897–1968), Swedish gymnast from Västerås GF; won gold in men's team gymnastics, Swedish system, at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; distinct from the 1912 art-competitor namesake.
Bengt Nordén
Bengt Nordén, also published as Bengt Norden, is a Swedish physical chemist known for developing linear dichroism spectroscopy to study DNA and proteins in solution.
Bengt Palmquist
Bengt Valdemar Palmquist (1923–1995), Swedish Dragon-class sailor from Göteborgs KSS; three-time Olympian (1956, 1960, 1968), 1956 Melbourne gold in Slaghoken II after a 5,723-point tie, and 1975 Dragon world champion with sons Björn and Johan.
Bengt Samuelsson
Bengt Samuelsson (1934–2024) was a Swedish biochemist at Karolinska Institutet who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering thromboxanes and leukotrienes.
Bengt Sjostedt
Bengt Sjöstedt (Bengt Olof Albert Sjöstedt), Finnish hurdler, 1906-1981, equalled the 110m hurdles world record at 14.4 in Helsinki in 1931, a Finnish record until 1967, and reached the Olympic semi-finals in 1928 and 1932.
Bengt Strömgren
Bengt Strömgren (1908–1987) was a Danish astrophysicist known for the Strömgren sphere, his theory of ionized hydrogen clouds around hot stars, and the uvbyβ photometric system.
Bengt Westermark
Bengt Westermark is a Swedish tumor-biology researcher and professor at Uppsala University, known for work on platelet-derived growth factor and cancer, especially glioblastoma, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Bengt Winblad
Bengt Winblad (B. Winblad) is a Swedish physician and professor of geriatric medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for research on Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Bengü
Bengü, full name Bengü Erden, is a Turkish pop singer born in 1979 whose debut album Hoş Geldin appeared in 2000, with hits including "Korkma Kalbim" and "Sahici".
Benguela
Benguela: coastal city and provincial capital in western Angola, founded by the Portuguese in 1617, a major slave-trade port from the 1720s, and namesake of the Benguela Railway (CFB), the Lobito-Luau line at the heart of the Lobito Corridor.
Benguela Current
The Benguela Current is the wind-driven eastern boundary current of the South Atlantic, flowing northwestward along southern Africa from Cape Agulhas to Cape Fria and driving rich coastal upwelling.
Benguela Province
Benguela Province (Província de Benguela), coastal province of western Angola, capital Benguela city, founded 1617. 39,827 km², 23 municipalities, 2.6 million people (2024 census); home to Lobito port and the Benguela Railway's Lobito Corridor.
Benguela Railway
The Benguela Railway, or Caminho de Ferro de Benguela, is a 1,344 km railway in Angola running from the Atlantic port of Lobito to the border town of Luau.
Benguet
Benguet is a landlocked province in the Cordillera Administrative Region, northern Luzon, Philippines, with capital La Trinidad. Known as the Salad Bowl of the Philippines for vegetable farming and for gold and copper mining; 13 municipalities, 473,190 people (2024).
Benham-class destroyer
The Benham class was a class of ten United States Navy destroyers commissioned in 1939, the last US destroyer class built to the 1,500-ton treaty limit.
Beni
Beni (Río Beni), river in northern Bolivia rising in the Andes near La Paz; joins the Mamoré to form the Madeira. About 1,500–1,600 km long, 6,200 m³/s mean discharge; also the Beni Department (capital Trinidad, created 1842).
Beni Aharon (בני אהרון)
Beni Aharon (בני אהארוץ) is an IDF armored corps brigadier general who commanded the 401st Armored Brigade from 2022 to 2024 and has led Division 146 since 2025.
Beni Biosphere Reserve
Beni Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Estación Biológica del Beni), a UNESCO MAB site in Beni Department, Bolivia, designated 1986; 135,274 ha of Amazon forest and savanna, over 2,000 plant species, Tsimane' communities, and Amazon Biosphere Reserves Project restoration and fire programs.
Beni Hasan
Beni Hasan, also spelled Beni Hassan, is a Middle Kingdom necropolis of 39 rock-cut tombs on the east bank of the Nile in Middle Egypt, near El-Minya.
Beni Mellal (city)
Beni Mellal (بني ملال), Morocco, capital of Béni Mellal province and the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region between the Middle Atlas and Tadla plain; founded 1668, about 222,600 residents, known for Aïn Asserdoun gardens and kasbah.
Béni Mellal-Khénifra
Béni Mellal-Khénifra is one of Morocco's twelve regions, an inland area of about 2.5 million people created in 2015, combining the Tadla plain with mountain and phosphate-mining territory.
Beni Suef power plant
The Beni Suef power plant is a 4,800 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station near Beni Suef, Egypt, 110 km south of Cairo, inaugurated by President El-Sisi in July 2018.
Beni Suweif Governorate
Beni Suweif Governorate (محافظة بني سويف), Egypt's 'Pearl of Upper Egypt', lies about 120 km south of Cairo; 10,698.5 km², ~3.98 million people, seven districts, agriculture-led economy, Meidum pyramid and Herakleopolis Magna.
Beni-Mellal (district)
Beni-Mellal (Béni Mellal, بني ملال), a province of Morocco in the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region; capital Beni-Mellal city; 576,266 residents (2024 census), Tadla irrigated plain, A8 motorway link, regional capital.