Bangladesh
Bangladesh (officially People's Republic of Bangladesh) is a country in Southern Asia, with its capital at Dhaka, and is home to roughly 173.6M people.
Bengali is the official language; the currency in circulation is Bangladeshi taka (৳); people from here are called Bangladeshi.
- »It is among the most densely populated countries on Earth, with over 170 million people in an area smaller than Iowa.
- »The Sundarbans mangrove forest it shares with India is the largest of its kind and holds the world's biggest tiger reserve.
Bangladesh straddles the Tropic of Cancer.
Bangladesh touches two neighbours: India to the west and Myanmar to the southeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Dhaka was the Mughal capital of Bengal and grew rich on muslin so fine it was traded across the Roman and Mughal worlds. It is now one of the most densely populated cities anywhere.
135,403 km² (52,279 sq mi), 94th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Greece.
Population 173,562,364, 8th of 198 on file. That averages 1,282 per km² (3,320 per sq mi).
The red disc is the sun rising over Bengal and the blood of those killed in the 1971 war of independence. It sits slightly left of centre so it appears centred when the flag flies.