HERITAGE RECORD · 452

Sundarbans National Park

孙德尔本斯国家公园

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

The Sundarbans covers 10,000 km2 of land and water (more than half of it in India, the rest in Bangladesh) in the Ganges delta. It contains the world's largest area of mangrove forests. A number of rare or endangered species live in the park, including tigers, aquatic mammals, birds and reptiles.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ532440 ↗

Inception1984

Area1330.12 ha

Administrative areaQ2308319

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Chinese Wikipedia孙德尔本斯国家公园 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(ix)Outstanding ecological and biological processes in the evolution of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems.

(x)The most important natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity.

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