Originally measured about 200 years ago, the Sundarbans covered an area of about 16,700 km² but today it has shrunk significantly to only 4,143 km². Spanning across West Bengal in India and Bangladesh, the Mangrove forest is formed in the Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta. The region is known to be highly fertile and is used extensively for cultivation, mainly because the interiors of the Delta are shielded away from the sea.
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