Area of Sundarban

AREA: Nearly 2400 sq. miles or 6000 sq. km. 

FOREST LIMITS: North-Bagerhat, Khulna and Sathkira districts : South-Bay of Bengal; East-Baleswar (or Haringhata) river, Perojpur, Barisal district, and West-Raimangal and Hariabhanga rivers which partially form Bangladesh boundary with West Bengal in India. 

Sundarban is the largest delta which is created with tide by a great deal of silt of the padma and brahmaputra.It is also recognized as one of the largest mangrove forest in the world.It is consist of shaymnagar the northern side of satkhira district,koyra and dakop of khulna district and part of mongla,morelgonj,sharankhola of bagerhat district.Sundarban is about 4.2% of the total area of bangladesh and it is 44% of the total forest of bangladesh.Its total area is about 6,017 square kilometre.Its land scape is 4,143 square kilometer which is 68,85 of the total sundarban and its water belt is 1,874 square kilometer.Which is 31,15 of the total sunderban.3,80,340 hector of the total sundarban is the developed forest and 26,807 hector is non major forest.

On hearing the name of sundarban,Firstly we remember the crocodile of the water belt and the tiger of the land scape.With different kinds trees,thousands of known and unknown animals make the bio-diversity of sundarban matchless many of them are in the water belt on the land scape and in the air-space. In the south western part of Bangladesh, in the district of greater Khulna, lies the Sundarbans, "the beautiful forest.

" It is a virgin forest which until recently owed nothing to human endeavour and yet nature has laid it out with as much care as a planned pleasure ground. For miles and miles, the lofty treetops form an unbroken canopy, while nearer the ground, works of high and ebb-tide marked on the soil and tree trunks and the many varieties of the natural mangrove forest have much to offer to an inquisitive visitor.