Floods in Bihar Floods in Bihar Bihar is India's most flood-prone State, with 76% of the population in the North Bihar living under the recurring threat of flood devastation. According to some historical data, 16.5% of the total flood affected area in India is located in Bihar while 22.1% of the flood affected population in India lives in Bihar. About out of total geographical area of comprising 73.06% is flood affected. Floods in Bihar are a recurring disaster which on an annual basis destroys thousands of human lives apart from livestock and assets worth millions. Floods in Bihar have claimed 9,500 lives since
Provinces of Portugal its beginning, a policy of regionalisation of the country, which was written into the 1933 Constitution, creating new provinces, within an executive body, the "juntas de provincia" () and a deliberative body, the "conselhos provinciais" (). Created in 1936, the new provinces did not correspond to the traditional "comarcas" or "provinícias". The new territories were based on studies made by Amorim Girão, a geographer, who divided continental Portugal into 13 ""regiões naturais"" (). The provinces were: These eleven provinces corresponded each to one of the natural regions developed by Amorim Girão, with two exceptions: the natural regions of Trás-os-Montes and