Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 163 million people in an area of 147,570 square kilometres (56,980 sq mi), making it one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Nepal and Bhutan by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by 100 km of the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation’s economic, political, and cultural hub. Chittagong, the largest seaport, is the second-largest city. The official language is Bengali, one of the most eastern branches of the Indo-European language family.
Bangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of British India in 1947. The country has a Bengali Muslim majority. Bengalis make up 98% of the total population of Bangladesh, and the large Muslim population of Bangladesh makes it the third-largest Muslim-majority country. The country consists of eight divisions, 64 districts and 495 sub-districts. It maintains the third-largest military in South Asia after India and Pakistan; and has been a major contributor to UN peacekeeping operations. A middle power in the Indo-Pacific, Bangladesh is an emerging economy ranked as the 33rd-largest in the world by nominal GDP, and the 29th-largest by PPP. It hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world due to the Rohingya genocide. Bangladesh faces many challenges, including the adverse effects of climate change, poverty, illiteracy, corruption, authoritarianism and human rights abuses. Once a historic center of the muslin cloth trade, Bangladesh is now one of the world’s largest modern garment exporters.
Tripura: Indo-Bangladesh Tourism Festival continues in Agartala.
Agartala: The three-day Indo-Bangla Tourism Festival kicked off on Sunday at Ajanta Palace in Agartala, the capital of
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth most
Bangladesh: Cargo ship collides with ferry in Dhaka,
Kolkata: One person was killed and more than ten were missing after a large number of cargo ships
Vandalism, looting at the Radha Kanta temple in
Just a day before the Holi celebrations, miscreants allegedly vandalized the Sukun Radha Kanta temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
