Which country in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta has a total area of 148,460 square kilometers? The answer is Bangladesh.
Bangladesh occupies the lower reaches of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna river systems, whose interconnected channels form one of the world’s great delta regions. A widely cited total area is 148,460 square kilometers, including both land and inland water. The country lies at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal and is mostly low-lying and riverine.
The delta’s fertile alluvial soils support intensive agriculture, especially rice cultivation, but the same geography makes Bangladesh highly exposed to monsoon flooding, river erosion, and tropical cyclones. The Sundarbans, a vast mangrove forest in the southwest, is part of this delta and is famous as habitat for the Bengal tiger.
Area figures can differ by source: Bangladesh’s statistics authority has also reported 147,570 km², while international reference works use 148,460 km². That measurement difference does not change the answer. A common mix-up is Nepal or Bhutan, which lie upstream in the Himalayan region rather than in the delta plain.