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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 ...
New Sundarban District from existing South 24 Parganas District, ... Population 2011 [36] Population Density Map 1 AD Alipurduar: Alipurduar: 2014 [19] Alipurduar Sadar;
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 larger full screen map shows the full forest area. [5] A large section of the area is a part of the Sundarbans settlements. [6] The densely populated area is an overwhelmingly rural area. Only 12.96% of the population lives in the urban areas and 87.04% of the population lives in the rural areas. [7] [8]
Population (2011) • Total. 3,335,448 • Density: 950/km 2 ... Sundarbans district is a proposed district to be created in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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 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 ...
An 1880 map of Bengal. ... A notable tree from the Sundarbans is the ubiquitous sundari ... West Bengal had a population density of 1,029 inhabitants per square ...