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Bangladesh - country overview [1]

Sandwiched between India and Myanmar and with an area of 147,570 sq km, Bangladesh is among the world's most densely populated countries with a population of 164 million. The country is geologically part of the Bengal Basin, among the largest in the world. Nearly 50 per cent of the country lies at an elevation of less than 10 m above sea level, and only the southwestern parts of the country exceeds an altitude of 300 m above sea level.

Publication Date: 
25/04/2012
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Bangladesh [2], Agriculture [3], Environment [4], South Asia [5], Rivers [6], Forests [7], Sundarbans [8], Natural Disasters [9], CNG [10], Air Pollution [11], Mobility Planning [12], Hydroelectricity [13], Water Harvesting [14], Arsenic [15], Urban Sanitation [16], Renewable Energy [17], Fish [18]
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