Sundarbans

The Sundarbans is the largest mangrove forest or saline woodland in the world. The total area of the Sundarbans is approximately 10,000 square kilometers, shared jointly between Bangladesh and India.
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  • Type: forest
  • Description: Reserved Forest in Bengal
  • Also known as: Sundarban”, “Sundarbon”, “Sundarbons”, “Sunderban”, “Sunderbans”, “Sunderbon”, “Sunderbons”, “Sundorban”, “Sundorbans”, “Sundorbon”, and “Sundorbons
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Sundarbans

Wiki­data ID
Q4526
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Sundarbans” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: سونداربانس
  • Armenian: Սունդարբան
  • Azerbaijani: Sundarban
  • Basque: Sundarbans
  • Belarusian: Сундарбан
  • Bengali: সুন্দরবন
  • Bhojpuri: सुंदरबन
  • Bhojpuri: सुंदरवन
  • Bhojpuri: सुन्दरबन
  • Bhojpuri: सुन्दरवन
  • Bulgarian: Сундарбан
  • Catalan: Sundarban
  • Catalan: Sundarbans
  • Catalan: Sunderbans
  • Chinese: 孙德尔本斯
  • Chinese: 宣德班
  • Chinese: 巽德班
  • Chinese: 苏达班
  • Chinese: 蘇達班
  • Croatian: Nacionalni park Sundarbans
  • Croatian: Sundarbani
  • Croatian: Sundarbans
  • Czech: Sundarbans
  • Danish: Sundarbans
  • Danish: Sunderbans
  • Dutch: Sundarbans
  • Egyptian Arabic: سونداربينز
  • Esperanto: Sundarbans
  • French: Sundarbans
  • French: Sunderbans
  • Galician: Sundarbans
  • Georgian: სუნდარბანსი
  • German: Sundarban
  • German: Sundarbans
  • Greek: Σουνταρμπάν
  • Greek: Σουντερμπάν
  • Greek: Σούντορμπον
  • Gujarati: સુંદરબંસ
  • Hebrew: הפארק הלאומי סונדרבאנס
  • Hebrew: סונדרבאנס
  • Hindi: सुंदरवन
  • Hindi: सुन्दरवन
  • Hungarian: Sundarbans
  • Hungarian: Szundarbansz
  • Indonesian: Sundarban
  • Indonesian: Sundarbans
  • Indonesian: Taman nasional sundarbans
  • Italian: Sundarban
  • Italian: Sundarbans
  • Japanese: シュンダバンズ
  • Japanese: シュンドルボン
  • Javanese: Sundarbans
  • Kannada: ಸುಂದರಬನ
  • Kannada: ಸುಂದರಬನ್ಸ್ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಉದ್ಯಾನ
  • Kannada: ಸುಂದರಬನ್ಸ್
  • Kannada: ಸುಂದರ್ ಬನ್ಸ್ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಉದ್ಯಾನ
  • Kannada: ಸುಂದರ್ಬನ್ಸ್
  • Korean: 순다르반스
  • Korean: 순다반스
  • Korean: 슌도르본
  • Latvian: Sundarbani
  • Lithuanian: Sundarbanai
  • Macedonian: Сундарбан
  • Maithili: सुन्दरवन
  • Malay: Sundarban
  • Malay: Sundarbans
  • Malayalam: Sundarbans
  • Malayalam: സുന്ദർബൻ
  • Malayalam: സുന്ദർബൻസ്
  • Maltese: Sundarbans
  • Marathi: सुंदरबन
  • Marathi: सुंदरवन
  • Mongolian: Сундарбан
  • Mongolian: Сундарбанс
  • Nepali: सुन्दरवन
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sundarbans
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sunderbans
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Sundarbans
  • Norwegian: Sundarbans
  • Occitan (post 1500): Sundarbans
  • Occitan (post 1500): Sunderbans
  • Oriya: Sundarbans
  • Oriya: ସୁନ୍ଦରବନ
  • Ossetian: Сундарбан
  • Panjabi: ਸੁੰਦਰਬਨ
  • Panjabi: ਸੁੰਦਰਵਨ
  • Persian: سونداربانس
  • Persian: سوندربن
  • Polish: Sundarban
  • Polish: Sundarbany
  • Portuguese: Parque Nacional dos Sundarbans
  • Portuguese: Sundarbans
  • Pushto: سندربن
  • Russian: Сундарбан
  • Russian: Сундарбанс
  • Russian: Сундарбаны
  • Sanskrit: अजन्तागुहाः
  • Sanskrit: सुन्दरवनराष्ट्रियोद्यानम्
  • Sanskrit: सुन्दरवनराष्ट्रीयोद्यानम्
  • Santali: ᱥᱩᱱᱫᱚᱨᱵᱚᱱ
  • Scots: Sundarbans
  • Serbian: Sundarbans
  • Serbo-Croatian: Nacionalni park Sundarbans
  • Serbo-Croatian: Sundarbans
  • Slovak: Sundarban
  • Slovak: Sundarbans
  • Slovenian: Sundarbans
  • Spanish: Sundarbans
  • Swedish: Sundarban
  • Swedish: Sundarbans mangroveskog
  • Swedish: Sundarbans nationalpark
  • Swedish: Sundarbans
  • Swedish: Sunderban
  • Tamil: சுந்தரவனக்காடுகள்
  • Telugu: సుందరవనాలు
  • Telugu: సుందర్బన్స్
  • Thai: สุนทรพน
  • Thai: สุนทรวัน
  • Turkish: Sundarban
  • Turkish: Sundarbans
  • Ukrainian: Сундарбан
  • Ukrainian: Сундарбанс
  • Urdu: سندربن
  • Vietnamese: Rừng Sundarbans
  • Vietnamese: Sundarban
  • Waray (Philippines): Sundarbans
  • Welsh: Sundarbans
  • Western Panjabi: سندر بن
  • Wu Chinese: 苏达班
  • सुंदरबन

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