## The Delta Landscape, Bangladesh

This is the mouth of the Haringhata River, in the southern Khulna-Patuakhali area. The image illustrates the funnel shaped estuaries and elongated islands of a tidal delta, and more strikingly, the variation in land use. Towards the west, the edge of the mangrove forest of the Sundarbans shows up in red. Patches of mangroves occur in other areas next to the coast. Most of the land has been cleared for paddy fields and shrimp ponds which are bounded by thin red strips of vegetation along the tidal creeks. A few sand spits and beach ridges are visible.
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