The Sundarbans, located in the Ganga delta across India and Bangladesh, is the world’s largest mangrove forest. The forest covers over 10,000 sq. km of which about 60 percent is in Bangladesh and the remainder in India. The word Sundarbans comes from ‘Sundari’ which is the local name of the dominant-abundant mangrove species Heritiera fomes. There are two dozen other mangrove species found here.
The delta came into existence over thousands of years through sediments carried down by the Ganga, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers. These three rivers confluence into the Bay of Bengal, making the estuarine tails of multiple streams. The delta becomes the transition zone connecting the freshwater of the rivers and the saline waters of the Bay of Bengal.
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