Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2009, week 39

Ganges River Delta, Bangladesh, India.
Ganges River Delta, Bangladesh, India.

The Ganges River Delta in Bangladesh is the largest inter-tidal delta in the world. In this photograph, the tributaries and distributaries of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers deposit huge amounts of silt and clay that create a shifting maze of waterways and islands in the Bay of Bengal.

Photo credit: NASA