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  2. Sundarbans National Park - Wikipedia

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    The Sundarbans National Park is a national park in West Bengal, India, and core part of tiger reserve and biosphere reserve. It is part of the Sundarbans on the Ganges Delta and adjacent to the Sundarban Reserve Forest in Bangladesh. It is located to south-west of Bangladesh. The delta is densely covered by mangrove forests, and is one of the ...

  3. Sundarbans - Wikipedia

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    The Sundarban National Park is a National Park, Tiger Reserve, and a Biosphere Reserve in West Bengal, India. It is part of the Sundarbans on the Ganges Delta, and adjacent to the Sundarbans Reserve Forest in Bangladesh. The delta is densely covered by mangrove forests, and is one of the largest reserves for the Bengal tiger.

  4. Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve is a biosphere reserve in the Indian state of West Bengal, based on the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme list. [1] It is one of the 18 biosphere reserves in India and the third largest in terms of area. The Biosphere Reserve is constituted of the Sundarbans area spread across South 24 Parganas and ...

  5. Sundarbans settlements - Wikipedia

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    The Sundarbans settlements refer to the areas of the Sundarbans that were cleared of forests for human habitation in the present North 24 Paganas and the South 24 Parganas districts in the Indian state of West Bengal. Village in a clearing of Sundarbans.

  6. Ganges Delta - Wikipedia

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    The Ganges Delta (also known the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta[1]) is a river delta predominantly covering the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, India. It is the world's largest river delta [2][3] and it empties into the Bay of Bengal with ...

  7. Sundarbans South Wildlife Sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 21.815°N 89.392°E. Karamjhal, Sundarban. Sundarbans South Wildlife Sanctuary is a reserve forest in Bangladesh that extends over an area of 36,970 hectares of mangrove forest. It is situated next to the Sundarbans National Park in West Bengal, India. The sanctuary is one of three Sundarbans wildlife sanctuaries, the others being ...

  8. Sajnekhali Wildlife Sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    Area. 362 km 2 (140 sq mi) Established. 1976. www.wildbengal.com /urls /pa _san _sajnekhali.htm. Sajnekhali Wildlife Sanctuary is a 362 km 2 area in the northern part of the Sundarbans delta in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India. It is located at the confluence of the Matla and Gumdi rivers. [2] The area is mainly mangrove scrub ...

  9. List of Ramsar sites in India - Wikipedia

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    Sundarban Wetland: West Bengal: 30 January 2019: 4230: Located within the largest mangrove forest in the world, it encompasses hundreds of islands and a maze of rivers, rivulets and creeks in the delta of the rivers Ganges and Brahmaputra on the Bay of Bengal. The Indian Sundarban, covering the south-westernmost part of the delta, constitutes ...