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Efforts to reclaim 600 sq km land from Bay [1]

The country is going to reclaim an area of 600 square kilometers from the Bay of Bengal in an effort to offset the growing demand for lands to accommodate ever increasing populations and adapt to the climate change.

"We are going to reclaim 600 square kilometers of land from the sea in near future.

Publication Date: 
27/09/2010
New Nation (Bangladesh) [2]
Tags:
Bangladesh [3], Land Resources [4], Climate Change [5], Sea Level Rise [6], Bay Of Bengal [7]
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