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BangladeshGeography
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Location:
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Southern Asia, bordering the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and India | |
Geographic coordinates:
| 24 00 N, 90 00 E | |
Map references:
| Asia | |
Area:
| total: 144,000 sq km
land: 133,910 sq km
water: 10,090 sq km | |
Area - comparative:
| slightly smaller than Iowa | |
Land boundaries:
| total: 4,246 km
border countries: Burma 193 km, India 4,053 km | |
Coastline:
| 580 km | |
Maritime claims:
| territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 18 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: up to the outer limits of the continental margin | |
Climate:
| tropical; mild winter (October to March); hot, humid summer (March to June); humid, warm rainy monsoon (June to October) | |
Terrain:
| mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast | |
Elevation extremes:
| lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m
highest point: Keokradong 1,230 m | |
Natural resources:
| natural gas, arable land, timber, coal | |
Land use:
| arable land: 62.11%
permanent crops: 3.07%
other: 34.82% (2001) | |
Irrigated land:
| 38,440 sq km (1998 est.) | |
Natural hazards:
| droughts, cyclones; much of the country routinely inundated during the summer monsoon season | |
Environment - current issues:
| many people are landless and forced to live on and cultivate flood-prone land; water-borne diseases prevalent in surface water; water pollution, especially of fishing areas, results from the use of commercial pesticides; ground water contaminated by naturally occurring arsenic; intermittent water shortages because of falling water tables in the northern and central parts of the country; soil degradation and erosion; deforestation; severe overpopulation | |
Environment - international agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements | |
Geography - note:
| most of the country is situated on deltas of large rivers flowing from the Himalayas: the Ganges unites with the Jamuna (main channel of the Brahmaputra) and later joins the Meghna to eventually empty into the Bay of Bengal |
More about Bangladesh:
Introduction
People
Government
Economy
Communications
Transportation
Military
Transnational Issues
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