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Indus Delta

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The delta formed where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea in Pakistan's Sindh province, once a large expanse of mangrove wetlands now much reduced by upstream water diversion. Its shrinking freshwater flow has led to increasing seawater intrusion into the delta's soils.

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