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The Ganges-Brahmaputra delta is the largest river delta
It spreads across about 100,000 square kilometres of Bangladesh and India
Three great rivers, the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna, meet and fan out across the Bengal basin, building the world's largest delta. The silt they carry makes the land unusually fertile and also unusually low-lying, so much of it sits only a metre or two above sea level. The Sundarbans mangrove forest occupies its seaward edge.
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