About Sundarbans

Sundarbans,the home of the famous Royal Bengal Tiger . The Sundarbans in bengali is "Shundorbon". It is the largest mangrove forest in the world . In bengali language sundar means "beautiful"and ban means "forest or jungle .Therefore Sundarbans means beautiful forest or jungle . The name may have derived from the sundari trees . Those trees are found in sundarbans in large numbers . The forest covers 10,000 km^2.



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The Sundari tree











The Golpatha tree

The Sundari tree