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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 ...
The present Sundarban National Park was declared as the core area of Sundarban Tiger Reserve in 1973 and a wildlife sanctuary in 1977. On 4 May 1984 it was declared a national park. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1987, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and it has been designated as a Ramsar site since 2019. [ 1 ]
New Sundarban District from existing South 24 Parganas District, ... Population 2011 [36] Population Density Map 1 AD ... Growth Rate Sex Ratio Literacy
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.
The table below shows annual population growth rate history and projections for various areas, countries, regions and sub-regions from various sources for various time periods. The right-most column shows a projection for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant. Preceding columns show actual history.
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 ...
In November 2015, the Government of West Bengal announced its intention to create the district in the near future. [7] [8] Under this proposal, Sundarbans district will be created from thirteen community development blocks namely Jaynagar I, Jaynagar II, Mathurapur I, Mathurapur II, Kultali, Canning I, Canning II, Basanti, Gosaba, Kakdwip, Namkhana, Patharpratima and Sagar in South 24 Parganas ...
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 ...