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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

16. The largest delta of the world is :


(A) Sunderbans
(B) Amazon Basin
(C) Greenland
(D) Congo Basin

Ans. (A) Sunderbans

The term delta is used to describe the area of land where a river empties into the ocean or the sea. The soil that is carried down the river builds up where it flows into another body of water, forming a land mass. 

The Ganges Delta - Sundarbans stretches some 220 miles across India and Bangladesh. The Ganges empties into the Bay of Bengal, with more than two-thirds of it in Bangladesh. It covers 23,000 square miles.

(Source : eHow)




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