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Sundarbans
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Sundarbans 

the swampy lowland delta region of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers in India and Bangladesh. The Sundarbans is a maze of streams and low-lying islands periodically inundated by the tides and frequently changing in outline. The total area of the islands is about equal to the area of the streams. There are mangrove forests and shrubs, nipa palm groves, ferns, and verbenas. The Sundarbans is sparsely populated. There are breeding grounds for malaria. The name “Sundarbans” probably derives from the sundri tree (20–30 m in height), whose wood is widely used in boat-building.



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Sundarbans National Park is one of the last tiger reserves in Bengal It covers about 10,000 kilometers in the Ganges delta Sundarbans National Park is one of the last tiger reserves in Bengal.
The number of tiger attacks on people has been growing in the Sundarban islands due to habitat loss and dwindling prey caused by climate change.
Officials say more than one million people have been displaced in India's Sundarban islands in West Bengal state alone, one of the world's biggest tiger reserves.
 
 
 
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