Location of Bangladesh
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Asian state, between latitudes 20 degrees
and 27 degrees north and longitudes 88 degrees and 93 degrees east.
Except for bamboo-forested hills in the southeast, mostly an alluvial
plain with network of navigable rivers: the eastern arms of the Ganges,
Jamuna (or Brahmaputra) and Meghna rivers.
Deltas of three main rivers, together with many islands, form Bangladesh's
coastline on Bay of Bengal.
Neighboring countries:
northwest and west: India; and,
east: Burma.
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Time:
- Greenwich Mean Time plus 6 hours.
- Climate:
- tropical and monsoon;
- hot and extremely humid during the
summer and mild and dry during the short winter;
- the average temperature is 19 degrees
Celsius from October to March, rising to 29 degrees Celsius between
April and September; and,
- rainfall ranges from 125 centimetres
in west to 250 centimetres in southeast to 500 centimetres in Sylhet
in northeast.
- Status:
- Republic
- Capital:
- Dhaka (estimated population
4,770,000).
- Other main towns:
- Chittagong (est. pop. 1,840,000);
- Khulna (est. pop. 860,000); and,
- Rajshahi (est. pop. 430,000).
- Population:
- 115,594,000 (1993) increasing by 2.8
per cent per year;
- 44.4 per cent under 15 years of age;
- life expectancy 51 years; and,
- infant mortality 116 per 1,000 live
births.
- Main and official language:
- Bangla (Bengali).
- Main religion:
- Islam
- Currency:
- 1 Taka (Tk) (US$0.027) = 100 paisa.
- Exports:
- garments, jute and jute products,
leather, fish, tea.
- Imports:
- manufactured goods, machinery and
transport equipment, food, fuels, chemicals.
- Main industries:
- jute and cotton textiles, tea,
leather, chemical fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, sugar, prawn fishing,
natural gas, cement, steel, garments, paper and newsprint.
- Main crops:
- rice, jute, wheat, sugar cane, tea,
potatoes, pulses, tobacco.
- Tourism:
- 120,000 arrivals per year.
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