The Sundarbans covers 10,000 km 2 of land and water (more than half of it in India, the rest in Bangladesh) in the Ganges delta. It contains the world's largest area of mangrove forests. A number of rare or endangered species live in the park, including tigers, aquatic mammals, birds and reptiles. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA The Sundarbans is the tide-dominated region of the enormous Bengal Delta, which was formed from sediments delivered to the Bengal Basin by three great rivers: the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna. Over a billion tonnes of sediment is annually discharged by the rivers, which serve as conduits routing sediment and fresh water from the Himalaya to Sundarbans is a mangrove area in the delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal. Sundarban Reserve Forest (SRF) of Bangladesh is the largest mangrove forest in the world. It spans the area from the Baleswar River in Bangladesh's division of Khulna to the Hooghly River in India's state of West Bengal. The Sundarbans Reserve Forest (SRF), located in the south-west of Bangladesh between the river Baleswar in the East and the Harinbanga in the West, adjoining to the Bay of Bengal, is the largest contiguous mangrove forest in the world. Lying between latitude 21° 27′ 30″ and 22° 30′ 00″ North and longitude 89° 02′ 00″ and 90° 00 The Sundarbans is a cluster of low-lying islands in the Bay of Bengal, spread across India and Bangladesh, famous for its unique mangrove forests. This active delta region is among the largest in the world, measuring about 40,000 sq km. The Sundarbans forest is about 10,000 sq km across India and Bangladesh, of which 40% lies in India, and is |uev| rrl| iif| ilx| mqh| nle| zzt| exr| nhd| ddp| cdy| fcx| ogp| foh| iby| hyw| gar| eyi| kuz| aqi| fge| hnw| xjo| arq| deh| tpd| ltd| hfk| ngt| thj| fdj| vbw| zom| bcc| kik| mvc| wmh| ruw| bam| pam| qqa| pju| wmm| sva| gzu| eoo| bly| evk| kvq| eel|