He also visited Tenasserim, now in Burma, and the Ganges Delta region.
The 1970 Bhola cyclone is the deadliest tropical cyclone on record, killing more than 300,000 people and potentially as many as 1 million after striking the densely populated Ganges Delta region of Bangladesh on November 13 , 1970
For example, the Ganges delta region in India and Bangladesh has a rapidly growing population and is one of the most densely populated areas of the world.
According to the Basin at Risk (BAR 3 scale values and friendship-hostility index by country region, the Ganges basin is more popularly known because of its 50 years long history of disputes and negotiation.
Two of the most important rivers in Hinduism originate in the region, the Ganges at Gangotri and the Yamuna at Yamunotri.
Although the Nile, the Zambezi, and the Niger rivers have large deltas, their size does not compare with, for example, the enormous delta region of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers.
Indra III recovered the dynasty's fortunes in central India by defeating the Paramara and then invaded the doab region of the Ganges and Jamuna rivers.
The region lies on the Ganges deltaic plain in north and Ganges tidal plain in south of Holocene Recent age (Adhikari et al. 2006).
The Ganges-Yamuna area was once densely forested.
Traversed by innumerable distributaries, the Ganges delta is an ill-drained region, and the western part within Indian territory has become moribund because of shifts in the channels of the Ganges.
