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  2. Sundarbans settlements - Wikipedia

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    The area spread over 25,500 km 2 having around 3.9 million people or about 40% of the total population of the area. According to the December 2001 census there were 271 Royal Bengal Tigers and other animals in the Indian portion of the Sundarban forest, spread across 9.630 km 2. The floor of the Sundarbans varies from 0.9 m to 2.11 m above sea ...

  3. West Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Scheduled castes and tribes form 28.6% and 5.8% of the population, respectively, in rural areas and 19.9% and 1.5%, respectively, in urban areas. [130] In September 2017, West Bengal achieved 100% electrification, after some remote villages in the Sunderbans became the last to be electrified. [159]

  4. Sundarbans - Wikipedia

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    The Sundarbans has a population of over 4 million [78] but much of it is mostly free of permanent human habitation. Despite human habitations and a century of economic exploitation of the forest well into the late 1940s, the Sundarbans retained a forest closure of about 70% according to the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) of the ...

  5. Environmental impact of development in the Sundarbans

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    Environmental impact of development in the Sundarbans, is the study of environmental impact on Sundarban, the largest single tract mangrove forest. [1] It consist of a geographical area of 9,629 square kilometres (3,718 sq mi), including 4,185 square kilometres (1,616 sq mi) of reserve forest land, and is a natural region located partly in southern Bangladesh and partly in the Indian state of ...

  6. List of population milestones by country - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of population milestones by country (and year first reached). Only existing countries are included, not former countries. Only existing countries are included, not former countries. 20 million milestone

  7. South 24 Parganas - Wikipedia

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    The district had a population density of 819 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,120/sq mi). [3] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 18.05%. [ 3 ] South 24 Parganas had a sex ratio of 956 females for every 1000 males, [ 3 ] and a literacy rate of 77.51%. 25.58% of the population lives in urban areas.

  8. Sandeshkhali I - Wikipedia

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    As per the 2011 census, the total number of literates in Sandeshkhali I CD Block was 100,978 (71.08% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 56,501 (78.09% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 44,477 (63.80% of the female population over 6 years).

  9. Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve or Indian Sundarbans covers an area of 9,630 square kilometers (3,720 sq mi) and is divided into core, buffer, and transi-tion zones. [3] The area of reserved forest under the Biosphere Reserve is about 4263 km 2 , [ 3 ] of which 55% land is under vegetation cover and the remaining 45 per cent under wetland ...