Sundarbans National Park: the natural World Heritage Site of West Bengal
Background
Sundarbans National Park is in West Bengal, India.
UNESCO inscribed it on the World Heritage List in 1987 under the natural criteria (ix) and (x).
The inscribed property covers 133,010 ha.
The Sundarbans as a whole covers 10,000 km2 of land and water in the Ganges delta, divided between India and Bangladesh; UNESCO's brief synthesis estimates that about 66% of the whole mangrove forest area lies in Bangladesh and the remaining 34% in India.
It contains the world's largest area of mangrove forests.
Rare and endangered species living there include the tiger, aquatic mammals, birds and reptiles.
In plain words
World Heritage List — The list of cultural and natural places that UNESCO has recognised as having outstanding universal value.
Mangrove — A salt-tolerant forest that grows in the tidal mud of coasts and river deltas.