Bangladesh

The People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in , on the edge of the Indian subcontinent. The country is endowed with pristine beaches, numerous archaeological sites, bustling markets, numerous sites of religious importance, forests, delicious food, and more importantly, hospitable and friendly people.
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Top destinations include Dhaka and Chittagong.

is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is the largest city by population in the historical region of and a major city in .

is the main international seaport and second largest city in Bangladesh, on the Bay of Bengal. The city is the headquarters of many Bangladeshi companies, including the Stock Exchange.

is a metropolitan city in the north eastern region of Bangladesh. It serves as the administrative centre for both the and the .

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is an administrative division of Bangladesh. serves as the capital city of , the and Bangladesh. The division remains a population magnet, and covers an area of 20,508.8 km2 with a population in excess…

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, officially Chattogram Division, is geographically the largest of the eight administrative Divisions of Bangladesh. It covers the southeasternmost areas of the country, with a total area of 34,529.97 km2 and a population according to the…

is one of the eight first-level administrative divisions of Bangladesh. It has an area of 18,174.4 square kilometres and a population at the 2022 Census of 20,353,119.

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is a region of Bangladesh, consisting of Barisal Division and Khulna Division. The region is known for its rice production, thriving shrimp industry and the Bangladeshi part of the .

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is a region of Bangladesh, consisting of Mymensingh Division and Sylhet Division. Besides being the major tea-growing area of Bangladesh, it is fairly devoid of attractions and touristy activities.

is the newest division in Bangladesh, splitting from the on 25 January 2010. But it is certainly not the newest tourist hotspot.

Bangladesh

Latitude of center
23.8° or 23° 48′ north
Longitude of center
90.1° or 90° 6′ east
Population
162,000,000
Area
144,000 km² (55,599 miles²)
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Capital
Currency
Taka (BDT)
Phone code
.bd
Internet domain
880
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432424937
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
1210997
Wiki­data ID
Q902
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Bangladesh” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: Бангладеш
  • Achinese: Bangladesh
  • Achinese: Bangladèsh
  • Adyghe: Бангладеш
  • Afrikaans: Bangladesh
  • Afrikaans: Bangladesj
  • Akan: Bangladɛhye
  • Albanian: Bangladesh
  • Albanian: Bangladeshi
  • Amharic: ባንግላዲሽ
  • Amharic: ባንግላዴሽ
  • Amis: Bangladesh
  • Angika: बांग्लादेश
  • Arabic: بنجلاديش
  • Arabic: بنغلاديش
  • Arabic: جمهورية بنغلاديش الشعبية
  • Aragonese: Bangladesh
  • Armenian: Բանգլադեշ
  • Arpitan: Banglladèch·e
  • Arpitan: Banglladècho
  • Assamese: বাংলাদেশ
  • Asturian: Bangladex
  • Atayal: Bangladesh
  • Avaric: Бангладеш
  • Awadhi: बांग्लादेश
  • Aymara: Banladish
  • Azerbaijani: Banqladeş
  • Balinese: Bangladesh
  • Bambara: Bangladesh
  • Bambara: Bɛngiladɛsi
  • Banjar: Bangladesh
  • Banjar: Bangladisa
  • Bashkir: Бангладеш
  • Basque: Bangladesh
  • Basque: Bangladeshko Herri Errepublika
  • Batak Mandailing: Bangladesh
  • Bavarian: Bangladesch
  • Belarusian: Бангладэш
  • Belarusian: Банглядэш
  • Belarusian: Банґлядэш
  • Bengali: Gonaoprojatontri Bangladesh
  • Bengali: গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ
  • Bengali: বাংলা দেশ
  • Bengali: বাংলাদেশ
  • Bengali: বিডি
  • Betawi: Benggaladésa
  • Bhojpuri: बांग्लादेश
  • Bishnupriya: বাংলাদেশ
  • Bislama: Banglades
  • Bislama: Bangladesh
  • Bosnian: Bangladeš
  • Brahui: Bangládeş
  • Breton: Bangladesh
  • Bulgarian: Бангладеш
  • Burmese: banglaဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ
  • Burmese: ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်
  • Burmese: ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ
  • Catalan: Bangla Desh
  • Catalan: Bangladeix
  • Catalan: Bangladesh
  • Cebuano: Bangladesh
  • Central Bikol: Banglades
  • Central Kanuri: Bangladesh
  • Central Kurdish: بەنگلادێش
  • Chamorro: Bangladesh
  • Chavacano: Bangladesh
  • Chechen: Бангладеш
  • Cherokee: ᏆᏂᎦᎵᏕᏍ
  • Chinese: Bangladesh
  • Chinese: Mèngjiālāguó
  • Chinese: 孟加拉
  • Chinese: 孟加拉人民共和国
  • Chinese: 孟加拉人民共和國
  • Chinese: 孟加拉国
  • Chinese: 孟加拉國
  • Chuvash: Бангладеш
  • Cornish: Bangladesh
  • Corsican: Bangladesh
  • Crimean Tatar: Bangladeş
  • Croatian: Bangladeš
  • Czech: Bangladéš
  • Dagbani: Bangladesh
  • Danish: Bangladesh
  • Dhivehi: ބަންގާޅު
  • Dimli (individual language): Bengladeş
  • Dotyali: बंगलादेश
  • Dotyali: बङ्गलादेश
  • Dutch: Bangladesh
  • Dutch: Volksrepubliek Bangladesh
  • Dzongkha: བངྒ་ལ་དེཤ
  • Eastern Mari: Бангладеш
  • Egyptian Arabic: بانجلاديش
  • Erzya: Бангладеш Мастор
  • Esperanto: Bangladeŝo
  • Esperanto: Popola Respubliko Bangladeŝo
  • Estonian: Bangladesh
  • Estonian: Bangladeshi Rahvavabariik
  • Ewe: Bangladesh nutome
  • Extremaduran: Bangladesh
  • Faroese: Bangladesj
  • Fiji Hindi: Bangladesh
  • Fijian: Bangladesh
  • Finnish: Bangladesh
  • Finnish: Bangladeshin kansantasavalta
  • French: Bangladesh
  • French: la République populaire du Bangladesh
  • French: Pakistan oriental
  • Friulian: Bangladesh
  • Fulah: Banglaadees
  • Fulah: Banngladesh
  • Gagauz: Bangladeş
  • Galician: Bangladesh
  • Galician: República Popular de Bangladesh
  • Gan Chinese: 孟加拉
  • Ganda: Bangaladesi
  • Georgian: ბანგლადეში
  • German: Bangladesch
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Bangladesh
  • Gilaki: بنگلادش
  • Goan Konkani: Bangladesh
  • Goan Konkani: बांगलादेश
  • Gorontalo: Bangladesh
  • Greek: Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία του Μπανγκλαντές
  • Greek: Μπαγκλαντές
  • Greek: Μπανγκλαντές
  • Guarani: Vangalande
  • Guarani: Vangyladẽ
  • Guianese Creole French: Bangladesh
  • Gujarati: બાંગ્લાદેશ
  • Haitian: Bangladèch
  • Hakka Chinese: Bangladesh
  • Hakka Chinese: Men-kâ-lâ-koet
  • Hausa: Bangiladas
  • Hausa: Bangladash
  • Hausa: Bangladesh
  • Hawaiian: Banagaladesa
  • Hebrew: בנגלאדש
  • Hebrew: בנגלדש
  • Hindi: बंगलादेश
  • Hindi: बाँग्लादेश
  • Hindi: बांग्लादेश
  • Hungarian: Banglades
  • Hungarian: Bangladesi Népi Köztársaság
  • Iban: Bangladesh
  • Icelandic: Bangladess
  • Ido: Bangladesh
  • Igbo: Bangladesh
  • Iloko: Banglades
  • Inari Sami: Bangladesh aalmugtäsiväldi
  • Inari Sami: Bangladesh
  • Indonesian: Banglades
  • Indonesian: Bangladesh
  • Ingush: Бангладеш
  • Ingush: Бенгалойче
  • Interlingua: Bangladesh
  • Interlingue: Bangladesh
  • Irish: An Bhangladéis
  • Irish: an Bhanglaidéis
  • Irish: An Bhanglaidéis
  • Italian: Bangladesh
  • Italian: Repubblica Popolare del Bangladesh
  • Jamaican Creole English: Banggladesh
  • Japanese: バングラ
  • Japanese: バングラディシュ
  • Japanese: バングラディッシュ
  • Japanese: バングラディッシュ人民共和国
  • Japanese: バングラデシュ
  • Japanese: バングラデシュ人民共和國
  • Japanese: バングラデッシュ
  • Japanese: 孟加拉
  • Javanese: Banggaladésa
  • Kabiyè: Paŋgɩladɛɛsɩ
  • Kabuverdianu: Bangladexi
  • Kabyle: Bangladec
  • Kadazan Dusun: Bangladesh
  • Kalaallisut: Bangladesh
  • Kalmyk: Бенгалмудин Улс Орн
  • Kannada: ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾದೇಶ
  • Kannada: ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾದೇಶ್
  • Kara-Kalpak: Bangladesh
  • Karachay-Balkar: Бангладеш
  • Kashmiri: بَنگلادیش
  • Kashmiri: بَنٛگلہ دیٖش
  • Kashmiri: बंगलादेश
  • Kashubian: Bangladesz
  • Kazakh: Бангладеш
  • Kazakh: Баңладеш
  • Khmer: បង់ក្លាដេស្ហ
  • Khmer: បង់ក្លាដែស
  • Khmer: បង់ក្លាដែស្ស
  • Kikuyu: Bangladesh
  • Kikuyu: Bangladeshi
  • Kinaray-A: Banglades
  • Kinaray-A: Banwabangla
  • Kinyarwanda: Bangaladeshi
  • Kirghiz: Бангладеш
  • Kirghiz: Баңгладеш
  • Komering: Bangladesh
  • Komi: Бангладеш
  • Kongo: Bangladesh
  • Kongo: People’s Republic of Bangladesh
  • Korean: 방글라데슈
  • Korean: 방글라데시
  • Kotava: Bangladeca
  • Kurdish: Bangladeş
  • Kurdish: Bengladeş
  • Kurdish: بەنگلادیش
  • Ladin: Bangladesc
  • Ladin: Republica Populera de Bangladesc
  • Ladino: Bangladesh
  • Lao: ບັງກະລາເທດ
  • Lao: ປະເທດບັງກລາເທດ
  • Lao: ປະເທດບັງກະລາເທດ
  • Latin: Bangladesa
  • Latin: Bangladesha
  • Latin: Bangladesia
  • Latvian: Bangladeša
  • Lezghian: Бангладеш
  • Ligurian: Bangladesh
  • Limburgan: Bangladesh
  • Limburgan: Bangladesj
  • Lingala: Bángaladɛ́si
  • Lingala: Bengalidɛsi
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Bangladex
  • Literary Chinese: 孟加拉國
  • Lithuanian: Bangladešas
  • Livvi: Bangladeš
  • Lojban: begygu’e
  • Lojban: begygue
  • Lombard: Bangladesh
  • Low German: Bangladesch
  • Low German: Bangladesh
  • Lower Sorbian: Bangladeš
  • Luba-Katanga: Benguladeshi
  • Lule Sami: Bangladæssja
  • Lule Sami: Bangladässja
  • Luxembourgish: Bangladesch
  • Macedo-Romanian: Bangladesh
  • Macedonian: Бангладеш
  • Madurese: Bangladesh
  • Maithili: बंगलादेश
  • Maithili: बाङ्लादेश
  • Malagasy: Bangladesy
  • Malay: Bangladesh
  • Malayalam: ബംഗ്ലാദേശ്
  • Maltese: Bangladesh
  • Maltese: Bangladexx
  • Maltese: il-Bangladesh
  • Maltese: Repubblika tal-Poplu tal-Bangladesh
  • Manipuri: ꯕꯥꯡꯂꯥꯗꯦꯁ
  • Manx: BAN
  • Manx: Bangladesh
  • Manx: BD
  • Manx: BGD
  • Manx: Deynphobblaght y Vangladesh
  • Manx: y Vangladesh
  • Manx: Yn Vangladesh
  • Maori: Pākaratēhi
  • Marathi: बांगलादेश
  • Marathi: बांग्लादेश
  • Mazanderani: بنگلادش
  • Min Dong Chinese: Bangladesh
  • Min Nan Chinese: Bangladesh
  • Minangkabau: Bangladesh
  • Mingrelian: ბანგლადეში
  • Mingrelian: ბანგლადეშიშ ოკათე რესპუბლიკა
  • Mirandese: Bangladexe
  • Moksha: Бангладэш
  • Mongolian: Бангладеш
  • Moroccan Arabic: بانڭلاديش
  • Moroccan Arabic: بانݣلاديش
  • Nauru: Bangradet
  • Navajo: Bangla Bikéyah
  • Navajo: Haʼaʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah
  • Nepali: बंगलादेश
  • Nepali: बङ्गलादेश
  • Newari: बंगलादेश
  • Nias: Bangladesh
  • North Ndebele: Bhangiladeshi
  • Northern Frisian: Bangladesch
  • Northern Luri: بأنگئلادئش
  • Northern Luri: بنگلادش
  • Northern Sami: Bangladesh álbmotdásseváldi
  • Northern Sami: Bangladesh
  • Northern Sami: Bangladesha álbmotdásseváldi
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Bangladesh
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Folkerepublikken Bangladesh
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Bangladesh
  • Norwegian: Bangladesh
  • Novial: Bangladesh
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: Bangladesh
  • Occitan (post 1500): Bangladesh
  • Occitan (post 1500): Bangladèsh
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Bængladesc
  • Oriya: ବଙ୍ଗଳାଦେଶ
  • Oriya: ବାଙ୍ଗଲାଦେଶ୍
  • Oriya: ବାଂଲାଦେଶ
  • Oromo: Baangilaadish
  • Ossetian: Бангладеш
  • Pa'o Karen: ဗန်းကလားဒေတ်ခမ်းထီ
  • Pali: बंगलादेश
  • Pampanga: Balembanglâ
  • Pampanga: Banglades
  • Pampanga: Bangládes
  • Panjabi: ਬੰਗਲਾਦੇਸ਼
  • Papiamento: Bangladesh
  • Papiamento: Bangladèsh
  • Persian: بنگلادش
  • Picard: Bangladek
  • Piemontese: Bangladesh
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Bangladash
  • Polish: Bangladesz
  • Portuguese: Bangladesh
  • Portuguese: Bangladexe
  • Pushto: بنګلاديش
  • Pushto: بنګلادېش
  • Pushto: بنګله ديش
  • Pushto: بنګله دیش
  • Pushto: بنګله دېش
  • Pushto: بنګله‌دیش
  • Pushto: بنگلادېش
  • Pushto: بنگله دېش
  • Quechua: Bangladesh
  • Quechua: Banladish
  • Quechua: Panlaris
  • Rakhine: ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ
  • Romanian: Bangladeș
  • Romanian: Bangladesh
  • Romansh: Bangladesch
  • Rundi: Bangaladeshi
  • Russia Buriat: Бангладеш
  • Russian: Бангладеш
  • Russian: Народная Республика Бангладеш
  • Rusyn: Банґладеш
  • Sakizaya: Bangladesh
  • Samoan: Bangladesh
  • Samoan: Pagalatesi
  • Samogitian: Bangladešos
  • Sango: Bengladêshi
  • Sanskrit: बंगलादेशः
  • Sanskrit: बाङ्गलादेशः
  • Santali: ᱵᱟᱝᱞᱟᱫᱤᱥᱟᱹᱢ
  • Santali: ᱵᱟᱝᱞᱟᱫᱮᱥ
  • Saraiki: بنگلہ دیش
  • Sardinian: Bangladesh
  • Saterfriesisch: Bangladesch
  • Scots: Bangladesh
  • Scottish Gaelic: Bangladais
  • Serbian: Bangladeš
  • Serbian: bd
  • Serbian: Бангладеш
  • Serbo-Croatian: Bangladeš
  • Shan: ပၢင်းၵလႃးတဵသျ်ႉ
  • Shan: မိူင်းပင်းၵလႃးတဵတ်ႈ
  • Shona: Bangladesh
  • Shona: Bangladeshi
  • Shona: Bhangaladhesha
  • Sicilian: Bangladesci
  • Silesian: Bangladesz
  • Sindhi: بنگلاديش
  • Sinhala: බංගලාදේශය
  • Sinhala: බංගලිදේශය
  • Sinhala: බංග්ලාදේශය
  • Skolt Sami: Bangladeeʹšš meertääʹssväʹldd
  • Skolt Sami: Bangladeš
  • Slovak: Bangladéš
  • Slovak: Bangladéšska ľudová republika
  • Slovenian: Bangladeš
  • Somali: Bangaaladheesh
  • Somali: Bangaladhesh
  • South Azerbaijani: بنقلادش
  • Southern Sotho: Bangladesh
  • Spanish: Banglades
  • Spanish: Bangladés
  • Spanish: Bangladesh
  • Spanish: Republica Popular de Banglades
  • Spanish: República Popular de Bangladés
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴱⴰⵏⴳⵍⴰⴷⵉⵛ
  • Sundanese: Bangladés
  • Swahili: Bangladesh
  • Swahili: Bangladeshi
  • Swati: IBhangladeshi
  • Swedish: Bangladesh
  • Swedish: Folkrepubliken Bangladesh
  • Swiss German: Bangladesch
  • Sylheti: ꠖꠦꠡ
  • Sylheti: ꠙꠥꠅꠞ ꠖꠦꠡ
  • Sylheti: ꠛꠣꠋꠟꠣꠖꠦꠡ
  • Sylheti: ꠛꠤꠒꠤ
  • Tagalog: Bangglades
  • Tagalog: Bangladesh
  • Tagalog: Republikang Bayan ng Bangladesh
  • Tahitian: Pātaratēhi
  • Tajik: Bangladeş
  • Tajik: Bangladesh
  • Tajik: Banglodeş
  • Tajik: Banglodesh
  • Tajik: Çumhurii Xalqiyi Banglodeş
  • Tajik: Jumhurii Khalqii Bangladesh
  • Tajik: Бангладеш
  • Tajik: Банглодеш
  • Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Халқии Бангладеш
  • Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Халқии Банглодеш
  • Talysh: Banglədeš
  • Talysh: Banqladeş
  • Tamil: பங்களாதேஷ்
  • Tamil: வங்காளதேசம்
  • Taroko: Bangladesh
  • Tatar: Бангладеш
  • Tatar: Бәңгәл иле
  • Telugu: బంగ్లాదేశ్
  • Telugu: బాంగ్లాదేష్
  • Tetum: Bangladexe
  • Thai: บังกลาเทศ
  • Thai: ประเทศบังกลาเทศ
  • Thai: ประเทศบังคลาเทศ
  • Thai: สาธารณรัฐประชาชนบังกลาเทศ
  • Tibetan: བངྒ་ལ་དེཤ།
  • Tibetan: བྷང་ལ་རྡེ་ཤུ།
  • Tigrinya: ባንግላደሽ
  • Tigrinya: ባንግላዲሽ
  • Tok Pisin: Bangladesh
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): Pengilātesi
  • Tosk Albanian: Bangladesch
  • Tsonga: Bangladesh
  • Tulu: ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾ ದೇಶ
  • Tulu: ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾದೇಶ
  • Tumbuka: Bangladesh
  • Tunisian Arabic: بنڨلاديش
  • Turkish: Bangladeş
  • Turkmen: Bangladeş
  • Twi: Bangladesh
  • Udmurt: Бангладеш
  • Uighur: بانگلادېش
  • Uighur: بېنگال
  • Ukrainian: Бангладеш
  • Ukrainian: Банґладеш
  • Upper Sorbian: Bangladeš
  • Urdu: بنگلا دیش
  • Urdu: بنگلہ دیش
  • Urdu: عوامی جمہوریہ بنگلہ دیش
  • Uzbek: Bangladesh
  • Venda: Bangladesh
  • Venetian: Bangladeš
  • Venetian: Bangladesh
  • Veps: Bangladeš
  • Vietnamese: Băng-la-đét (Bangladesh)
  • Vietnamese: Băng-la-đét
  • Vietnamese: Bangladesh
  • Vlaams: Bangladesh
  • Vlax Romani: Bangladesh
  • Volapük: Bangladejän
  • Võro: Bangladesh
  • Waray (Philippines): Bangladesh
  • Welsh: Bangladesh
  • Western Armenian: Պանկլատեշ
  • Western Balochi: بنگلادیش
  • Western Frisian: Banglades
  • Western Frisian: Bangladesh
  • Western Frisian: Bangladesj
  • Western Frisian: Folksrepublyk Bangladesj
  • Western Panjabi: بنگلا دیش
  • Western Panjabi: بنگلہ دیش
  • Wolof: Banglaades
  • Wolof: Bengalades
  • Wu Chinese: 孟加拉
  • Wu Chinese: 孟加拉国
  • Yakut: Баҥладеш
  • Yiddish: באנגלאדעש
  • Yiddish: באַנגלאַדעש
  • Yoruba: Bángáládésì
  • Yoruba: Bangladẹ́shì
  • Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède Bángáládésì
  • Yue Chinese: 孟加拉國
  • Zeeuws: Bangladesh
  • Zhuang: Bangladesh
  • Zulu: Bangladesh
  • Zulu: i-Bangladesh
  • BAN
  • Bangladesh
  • Bangladešos
  • Bangladex
  • Bangladex Masewalaxkayotl
  • Bangladex Tlalli
  • BD
  • BGD
  • ma Panla
  • बांग्लादेश

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