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It arises from the confluence of the following rivers:
The Ganges delta has the shape of a triangle (looks like the Greek letter Delta). It covers more than 105.000 km² and reaches over India, People's republic of China, Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
It is composed of a labyrinth of waterways, swamps, lakes and alluvial deposits (Chars). The Ganges delta is separated in the eastern (active) and the western (less active) part.
Despite of all risks like floodsA flood (in Old English flod a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the wor and cyclonesThis article is about the meteorological phenomenon. For other uses of the term see Cyclone (disambiguation). In meteorology, a cyclone refers to the rotation of a volume of air about an area of low atmospheric pressure. Cyclones are responsible for a wid more the 143 million people live there.
River deltas