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Sundarbans

Kingshuk Mondal · CC BY 4.0

0% trees around it and 58 species recorded.

37Forestyas Score

ForestWildMangrove

  • trees within 3 km0%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded58

The forest around

0% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Mangroves 75%Water 25%Mangroves 84%Water 16%Mangroves 78%Grassland 0%Water 22%Mangroves 54%Water 46%0%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km0%
  • 3–6 km0%
  • 6–10 km0%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Mangroves84%
  • Water16%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

58 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Brahminy Kite
Brahminy KiteHaliastur indus25 recordsTisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eurasian Whimbrel
Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus22 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Greenish Warbler
Greenish WarblerPhylloscopus trochiloides18 recordsDibyendu Ash · CC BY-SA 3.0
Oriental Magpie-robin
Oriental Magpie-robinCopsychus saularis16 recordsJ.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bronzed Drongo
Bronzed DrongoDicrurus aeneus15 recordsTisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0
Red Junglefowl
Red JunglefowlGallus gallus15 recordsDibyendu Ash · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brown-winged KingfisherNT
Brown-winged KingfisherPelargopsis amauroptera13 recordsJayanth Sharma · CC BY 3.0
Large-billed Crow
Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos12 recordsTisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blyth’s reed warbler
Blyth’s reed warblerAcrocephalus dumetorum12 recordsTisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0
White-throated Kingfisher
White-throated KingfisherHalcyon smyrnensis12 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Great White Egret
Great White EgretArdea alba12 recordsJJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Black-capped KingfisherVU
Black-capped KingfisherHalcyon pileata10 recordsJJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

37out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 0%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 58Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from December to January.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan24°18°12 mm
  2. Feb26°21°22 mm
  3. Mar29°25°34 mm
  4. Apr30°27°65 mm
  5. May31°29°176 mm
  6. Jun30°29°315 mm
  7. Jul29°28°462 mm
  8. Aug29°28°401 mm
  9. Sep29°28°315 mm
  10. Oct29°27°204 mm
  11. Nov27°24°41 mm
  12. Dec25°20°11 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sundarbans.

Reserved Forest in Bengal

Sundarbans is a forest in Bangladesh.

Seen from space, 0% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

58 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 58 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from December to January.

A Sailboat in Sundarbans, West Bengal, India 07
Kingshuk Mondal · CC BY 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Sundarbans seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

    • marked trails within 5 km
    • named and notable trees within 6 km
    • picnic sites within 4 km
    • shelters and huts within 6 km
    • viewpoints within 5 km
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

    Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

    Photographs

    The forest, as people saw it.

    Mangrove and river in Sundarbans
    Amartyabag · CC BY-SA 3.0
    Axishirsche in den Sundarbans
    Fabian Lambeck · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Saltwater Crocodiles of Sundarbans 03
    Fabian Roudra Baroi · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Other forests nearby.

    Sundarbans

    Bangladesh

    • 37Forestyas Score
    • 0%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 58Species

    Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden

    India · 102 km

    • 42Forestyas Score
    • 33%Trees
    • 51%Wild
    • 298Species

    See the guide

    The Great Banyan

    India · 102 km

    • 39Forestyas Score
    • 32%Trees
    • 51%Wild
    • 298Species

    See the guide

    National Botanical Garden

    Bangladesh · 282 km

    • 30Forestyas Score
    • 12%Trees
    • 36%Wild
    • 198Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q4526) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species417 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
    See these recordsgbif.org
    Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
    AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
    Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
    What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
    ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

    Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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