Interesting Facts You Must Know About Sundarban Forest
Being a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a renowned place for tiger conservation under the Tiger Project, the destination is a choice for every tiger lover... Read to know more
Deepika Joshi
You’ll be amazed to know that Sundarbans (India) is 10 times bigger than the city of Venice. Comprising 4000 sq. km, the Sundarbans Forest on Indian side has 102 islands, out of which 54 are inhabited and rest of the area is covered with the forest.
Sundarbans has got the world’s largest coastal mangrove forest (an area of about 10,000 km2, with enormous beauty shared between India (4,000 km2) and Bangladesh (6,000 km2 ).
Sundarban Jungle has been named after the large mangrove trees Sundari (Heritiera littoralis).
Sundarbans Tiger Reserve is estimated to have 400 majestic and fiery Royal Bengal Tigers.
Sundarban has unique Tidal Phenomenon twice a day – there are high tides when water level seems to rise around 6-10 feet and low tides when one can see the huge mud land area lying flat.
Gosaba is the biggest and last inhabited island on Sundarbans. Even though the island is isolated from the mainland, it has its own panchayat, schools, hospitals, local self-governance and more.