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India Reaches 103 Ramsar Sites: Sukhna Wetland and Sauj Jheel Added
India’s Ramsar site tally reached 103 following the addition of Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh (site no. 2602) and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh (site no. 2603). The pair illustrates two different wetland landscapes: a reservoir at the foothills of the Outer Himalayas and a shallow lake in the Ganga floodplain. The exam-worthy details are the state/UT mapping, site numbers, wetland ecology and the Ramsar Convention—not merely the total.
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