Eastern South Asia is . Bangladesh has a tropical monsoon climate. The Sundarbans in Bangladesh, which is shared with India, is a UNESCO world heritage site. Cox's Bazar Beach is one of the world's longest beaches. Bhutan is roughly the size of Switzerland. It is located on the southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas, landlocked between the Tibet Autonomous Region to the north and the Indian states of Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh to the west and south. The land consists mostly of steep and high mountains crisscrossed by a network of swift rivers, which form deep valleys before draining into
Ecology of the Himalayas Examples include Dehra Dun in India and Chitwan in Nepal. Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests grow here. Also called the Mahabharat Range, the Lesser Himalayas is a prominent range high formed along the Main Boundary Thrust fault zone, with a steep southern face and gentler northern slopes. The range is nearly continuous except for river gorges, where groups of rivers from the north gather like candelabra in a handful of places to break through the range. At these elevations and above, the biogeography of the Himalayas is generally divided by the Kali Gandaki Gorge in central Nepal, one of the deepest