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The largest estuary in India is at the mouth of river:

  1. Hooghly

  2. Bhagirathi

  3. Godavari

  4. Krishna

  5. None of these
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Explanation

The Hooghly River's estuary is the largest in India, forming where the Hooghly (a distributary of the Ganga) meets the Bay of Bengal. This estuary hosts the major Port of Kolkata and Haldia. The Sundarbans delta region is formed here. While the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta is larger overall, the specific estuary at the river mouth refers to the Hooghly's opening. The Bhagirathi is another name for the same river upstream.

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