Sits on the largest river delta on Earth, formed where the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna meet before the Bay of Bengal.
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Bangladesh
People's Republic of Bangladesh ยท เฆฌเฆพเฆเฆฒเฆพเฆฆเงเฆถ
Asia
ยท Southern Asia
0Population
147.57Kkmยฒ of land
$1.86KGDP / person
DhakaCapital
- ISO codes
- BD ยท BGD
- Density
- 1,105 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Bengali
- Currency
- Bangladeshi taka (BDT)
- Dial code
- +880
- Internet domain
- .bd
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 24.2150ยฐ N, 89.6850ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Bangladeshi
- UN region
- Southern Asia
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $302.57B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Bangladesh stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
8th
of 242 ยท 2.12% of world population
Land area
95th
of 242 ยท 0.10% of world land
GDP per person
190th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
10th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Bangladesh
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 163,046,161 people, the 8th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 2.12 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 147,570 kmยฒ, making it the 95th largest country here - about 4.8 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 1,105 people per kmยฒ, among the most crowded countries in the world.
The capital is Dhaka, at 23.73ยฐ N, 90.41ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 12,797,394.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Myanmar and India.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Dhaka.
The currency is the Bangladeshi taka (BDT, symbol เงณ).
The official language is Bengali.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Dhaka
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UTC+06:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Dhaka
Dhaka
23.7250ยฐ N, 90.4066ยฐ E
12.8M
2
Chattogram
Chittagong
22.3319ยฐ N, 91.7980ยฐ E
4.53M
3
Khulna
Khulna
22.8419ยฐ N, 89.5581ยฐ E
1.55M
4
Rajshahi
Rajshahi
24.3769ยฐ N, 88.6031ยฐ E
810K
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Bangladesh.