About Bangladesh

The country is located in South Asia. Bangladesh is incredibly dense in population, as of 2015 there is 161 million people living in Bangladesh.The country has an total area of 147,610 km2 or 56,990 sq mi. East of India and almost completely surrounded by India including that narrow, little Siliguri Corridor or the chicken's neck of India. A small, but reasonably sized border with Myanmar in the southeast and the Bay of Bengal located to the south. Nepal, Bhutan and China are located near Bangladesh but do not share a border with it. The country's maritime territory in the Bay of Bengal is roughly equal to the size of its land area. The capital and largest city is Dhaka located in the lower - central region right above the Padma River and the Ganges delta;

followed by Chittagong, which has the country's largest port.

The capital city Dhaka also known as the City Of Mosques.According to a survey conducted by Islamic Foundation,Bangladesh,in 2008, there are 5,776 mosques in Dhaka the capital alone and 250,399 mosques in the whole country. And it's just a view of the National Mosque of Bangladesh known as Baitul Mukarram Mosque. The country happened to has the second most enclaves in the entire world, Bangladesh, right after India.But as of last territorial admission in 31 July 2015 it ended with agreement signed peacefully with India .

Now, you have probably have seen this flag before and thought who dipped the flag of Japan in the top of algae. Well, it's not some green mutated version of Japan's flag. It's Bangladesh's!!! Essentially, the flag has a green field and red circle that is not in the center, but a little bit offset closer to the hoist side and the reason for this is to look centered when the flag is waving in the air. Green represents the lush, fertile, green interior of the land of Bangladesh and the red represents the blood of the martyrs who fought for the independence of the country and the Sun .

Bangladesh's land is shaped heavily by the landscape and the immense river systems that flow through the entire country. like vital blood streams fostering life to the entire region. There are some countries having a problem getting water. Well, Bangladesh kind of has the complete opposite problem and they have too much water. One thing you have to understand is that Bangladesh's largest resource is their rivers. In fact, the Bengal delta is the largest delta in the world

and the country has more trans - boundary rivers than anywhere else at 58. This means that they share rivers with both India and Myanmar All together though, Bangladesh has about 700 main rivers. The largest ones being the Padma or better known as the Ganges in India and the Jamuna or the Brahmaputra. This is actually pretty impressive considering that Bangladesh is only about half the size of the U.K. Now, because of all the rivers and the silk deposits, natural irrigation and land cultivation is amazing. Bangladesh is an ecological gem. In fact, some of the most fertile soil in the world is found in Bangladesh allowing us to grow thousands upon thousands of different crops, plants and orchards.




Bangladesh is generally split up into two different separate regions. The low - lying flat delta where most of the land is only at ten meters or less above sea level and the small hilly plains mostly in the north, northeast and southeast by Chittagong. Speaking of Chittagong, Bangladesh has the world's longest uninterrupted beach in the world, Cox's Bazar. This place goes on and on for 75 - ish miles which is 120 km . It is located 150 km (93 mi) south of the industrial port Chittagong .

However, we Bengalis would kind of prefer if you didn't check out the north part by Bhatiari because it kind of looks a little trashy. It’s a huge ship graveyard where companies all over the world like to dispose of their old ships where the people of the region can break apart and sell the pieces for profit.

Now, Bangladesh is of course blessed with fertility. Often villages are buried underneath mango and coconut and jackfruit trees and beautiful forests with an abundance of flora and fauna such as the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest.

which is kind of like the last place where you can find The Royal Bengali tiger.And yeah it's the National animal of Bangladesh.

here's two of my personal favorite photos of Royal Bengal Tigers.

However, there is a problem. Bangladesh is kind of subject to terrible, terrible tropical storms almost every year and sometimes even tornadoes. On top of that, during annual monsoon season, the rivers get so swollen, that 2/3 of Bangladesh's 64 districts typically experience flooding that causes extensive property damage, loss of communication, loss of drinking water, loss of crops and leads to the spread of disease which eventually leads to death. It's kind of crazy though because for such an environmentally rich area, the country has to deal with almost equally damaging environmental challenges.

Now let's talk about the independence of Bangladesh.We Bangladeshi people have a very unique story. We kind of had to - how can I put this - We had to fight two rounds for two separate different independence.One of them from the British and the other from Pakistan.In the shortest Bangladesh was for a long time part of the British Empire.However, after the British left, they separated the region into two states and three regions. The promontory Hindu state being India and the promontory Muslim state being West Pakistan and East Pakistan which is now known as modern - day Bangladesh.

West Pakistan administered East Pakistan and the capital of the time was Karachi.and it was also located in West Pakistan.Despite the fact that both sides were Muslim, they had very little in common both culturally and linguistically. East Pakistan eventually became furious because they felt as though they were being continuously oppressed economically, politically by Pakistan and especially angry when Pakistan tried to establish and institute Urdu as the official language and almost nobody spoke it as everyone there spoke Bengali. After series of protests ( most well known protest namely the language Movement of '52 which is now present day celebrated as International Mother Language day) and on 26 March 1971, after the Pakistani military junta led by Yahya Khan launched Operation Searchlight, a sustained military assault on East Pakistan,and detained the Prime Minister-elect under military custody where the Pakistan Army, with the help of supporting militias, massacred Bengali students, intellectuals, politicians, civil servants and military defectors; Bengali people went on war, defeat Pakistan and become an independent Country. During this war Pakistan military killed up to 3,000,000 people and raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bangladeshi women .It's also known as The 1971 Bangladesh genocide.For us Bengalis the path of gaining independence hasn't been easy as an average every family lost one or more members during this war. After independence, Bangladesh became a secular democracy and Joined U.N.

Now, as mentioned before, Bangladesh is very dense in their population. With a population of about 161 million people. In fact, if you exclude the city - states like Singapore and Hong Kong. Although, Hong Kong is technically under Chinese sovereignty, Bangladesh is most densely populated country in the world and 8th most populous. The country is promontory Muslim and about 86 percent being Sunni and about 12 percent are Hindu and the remaining 2 percent being Christian and Buddhist. Now, surprisingly, they all get along with each other pretty well, but let's find out who else Bangladesh get along with. Now, Bangladesh tries to maintain good ties with pretty much every country in the world and doesn't really typically choose sides when it comes to major world powers, Nepal is like a tactical friend of Bangladesh and it's mostly based on strategic agreements. Nepal does good business and Bangladesh gives them access to the ocean. The Maldives likes to hire Bengali people for work especially with their huge tourism sector. About 40,000 Bengali workers live in the Maldives.
For Sri Lanka, the first king was said to have ancestors from Bangladesh and the Bengali Buddhist community has sent Sri Lanka a gift from what are legendarily a few strands of Buddhist hairs and are worshipped objects on Poya Day, a Buddhist holiday in Sri Lanka. Now, Myanmar has generally good relations with Bangladesh. However, there is a little controversy over the Rohingya people. A Muslim tribe living in the north part of Myanmar that are being attacked and persecuted by radical extremists, Buddhists living in the area. That's right. You heard me. Radical extremists, Buddhists. They do exist.

Because of this, the Rohingya people have been flocking to Bangladesh as refugees which has been causing them more and more drama as an already over - populated and relatively poor country. The U.S. was and still is the largest aid provider for Bangladesh and is one of the top trade partners in tech - style. One thing that Bangladesh is like really good at is making. I mean have you seen the tags on the back of your shirts. It might be just from Bangladesh. However, Bangladesh is doing so well at developing their infrastructure that they have decreased their aid dependency from 85 percent in 1988 to about 2 percent in 2010. For the U.K., yes, Bangladesh was part of the former British Empire and even though they fought for independence and didn't liked the British rule, the British culture still permanent the Bengali culture over the years and it is very popular even today.I mean Bangladeshi peoples' favorite sport is cricket, drives on the left side of the road and English is the second most communally spoken language. To this day, despite the historical attention, the two countries get along just fine and have strong diplomatic ties. In terms of best friends though, Bangladesh more or less might consider Bhutan and India. Bhutan, they only have two embassies in their entire country. One for India and one for Bangladesh.

Bhutan was the second country to recognize Bangladesh as a state and has decided they want to invest heavily in the country's business. For India, it's funny because a promontory Hindu country defended a Muslim country from another Muslim country.They were the first to recognize Bangladesh as a state and supported them in the war against Pakistan, just joking the cultural background in this area dates back to thousands of years. However, afterwards, Bangladesh and India kind of gotten into a few swapples themselves. Apparently, they didn't realize that after drawing the borders, they had to share like a lot with Bangladesh.

Things started popping up like the enclaves disputes and the Ganges River irrigation drama and complaints that too many Bengali people were living illegally in India. However, in the end, We get along pretty well and both countries are always there to support each other.

Bangladesh is blessed and cursed in so many ways yet no matter what gets thrown in us, we always stay afloat when the flood comes and when it dries up, we are ready to get right back up and plant those crops all over again.

MY SOURCES:
• Wiki
• History of Bangladesh.
• Geographynow Youtube Channel.
• Photo Credits Google.

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