Sundarbans
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Sundarbans is a mangrove forest area in the Ganges Delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal. It spans the area from the Hooghly River in India's
Inside the Sundarbans
Village in a clearing of the Sundarbans. Drawing by Frederic Peter Layard after an original sketch of 1839
Farm among paddy fields in the Sundarbans, 2010
Sundari tree (Heritiera littoralis)
Bangladesh
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Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world with a population of almost 177.8 million people within an a
Sundarbans
…Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal. It spans the area from the Hooghly River in India's state of West Bengal to the Baleswar River in Bangladesh's Khulna Division. It comprises closed and open mangrove forests, land used for agricultural purpose, mudflats and barren land, and is intersected by…
A woman in Dhaka clad in fine Bengali muslin, 18th century
A photo from space showing the pollution over Bangladesh
Flooding after the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone, which killed around 140,000 people
A Bengal tiger, the national animal, in the Sundarbans