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The Country
The People's Republic of Bangladesh
Geographical Location
In South Asia
Area
1,47,570 square km.
Territorial waters-12 nautical mile.
Capital City
Dhaka
Standard Time
GMT plus 6 hours
Climate
Sub-tropical monsoon
Food
Staple diet rice, vegetable, pulses and fish
Principal Crops
Rice, Wheat, Jute, Tea, Tobacco and
Sugarcane,Grassland, mixed evergreen and
evergreen
Principal Rivers
Ganges/Padma, Brahmaputra/Jamuna,
Meghna, Karnaphuli, Teesta etc.
Mineral Resources
Natural gas, limestone, hard rock, coal,
lignite, silica sand, white clay,
radioactive sand, oil,etc.
Population
111.5 million (1991 census).
Density-755 persons per sq. km.
(1991 census).
Literacy Rate (Adult)
32.4 percent.
Language
99 percent Bangla, 1 percent other dialects,
English is widely spoken
and understood.
Religion
Muslim (88.3 percent),
Hindu (10.5 percent),
Buddhist (0.6 percent),
Christian (0.3 percent)
and Animists and believers
in tribal faiths (0.1 percent)
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