Geography Of Bangladesh

Location	Southern Asia, bordering the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and India
Geographic coordinates	24 00 N, 90 00 E
Map references	asia
Area	total: 144,000 sq km land: 133,910 sq km water: 10,090 sq km
Area comparative	slightly smaller than Iowa
Land boundaries	total: 4,246 km border countries: Burma 193 km, India 4,053 km
Coastline	580 km
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: up to the outer limits of the continental margin contiguous zone: 18 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Climate	tropical; mild winter (October to March); hot, humid summer (March to June); humid, warm rainy monsoon (June to October)
Terrain	mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: Keokradong 1,230 m
Natural resources	natural gas, arable land, timber, coal
Land use	arable land: 62.11% permanent crops: 3.07% other: 34.82% (2001)
Irrigated land	38,440 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards	droughts, cyclones; much of the country routinely inundated during the summer monsoon season
Environment - current issues	many people are landless and forced to live on and cultivate flood-prone land; water-borne diseases prevalent in surface water; water pollution, especially of fishing areas, results from the use of commercial pesticides; ground water contaminated by naturally occurring arsenic; intermittent water shortages because of falling water tables in the northern and central parts of the country; soil degradation and erosion; deforestation; severe overpopulation
Environment - international agreements	party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography note	most of the country is situated on deltas of large rivers flowing from the Himalayas: the Ganges unites with the Jamuna (main channel of the Brahmaputra) and later joins the Meghna to eventually empty into the Bay of Bengal

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This information was reproduced in part from the CIA World Fact book.

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