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Lakshadweep is a Union Territory and is governed by an administrator on behalf of the Government of India. [49] [50] It was established in 1956 and constitutes a single Indian district. [29] [51] The headquarters of the union territory were at Kozhikode until 1964, when the seat of the administrator of the islands was shifted to Kavaratti ...
List of Indian state trees (Union territories) Union territory Common name [3] Binomial name [4] Image Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Andaman redwood: Pterocarpus dalbergioides: Chandigarh: Mango [9] Mangifera indica: Delhi: Flamboyant [10] Delonix regia: Jammu and Kashmir: Chinar [11] Platanus orientalis: Ladakh: Juniper [11] Juniperus ...
Both have been proposed as the state flower and state tree respectively by the Ladakh administration. The species is highly valued as a medicinal plant, [ 1 ] and the resulting demand for the plant as medicine has placed pressure on wild populations due to over-collection.
The Maldives–Lakshadweep–Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in South Asia.It spans a chain of coralline islands in the Indian Ocean, including Lakshadweep (Laccadive Islands), a union territory of India; the Maldives, an independent country; and the British Indian Ocean Territory, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.
Map of Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a densely populated, low-lying, mainly riverine country located in South Asia with a coastline of 580 km (360 mi) on the northern littoral of the Bay of Bengal. The delta plain of the Ganges (Padma), Brahmaputra (Jamuna), and Meghna Rivers and their tributaries occupy 79 percent of the country.
Biological diversity in the Lawachara National Park consists of 460 species, of which 167 species are plants, 4 amphibian species, 6 reptile species, 246 bird species, 20 mammal species, and 17 insect species. [5] [6] One of this is the critically endangered western hoolock gibbons, of which only 62 individuals remain in the area.
For the purposes of this category, the "Indian subcontinent" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. That is, the geographic region is defined as including the following areas: Assam [ASS], comprising the state of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura; Bangladesh [BAN]
The Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests is a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregion of Bangladesh and India.The ecoregion covers an area of 254,100 square kilometres (98,100 sq mi), comprising most of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar and Tripura, and extending into adjacent states of Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and a tiny part of Assam, as well as ...