Bangladesh

Posted by Ahmed.kaka , 17‏/07‏/2010 7/17/2010

President:Iajuddin Ahmed
Total area:144,000 sq km
Language: Bangla
Population (2010est):158,065,841
Capital and largest city:Dhaka, 12,560,000
Other large cities:Chittagong,Khulna
Official religion: Islam
Monetary unit:Taka
Geography
Bangladesh, on the northern coast of the Bay of Bengal, is surrounded by India, with a small common border with Myanmar in the southeast. The country is low-lying riverine land traversed by the many branches and tributaries of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers.
Government
Parliamentary democracy
History
What is now called Bangladesh is part of the historic region of Bengal, the northeast portion of the Indian subcontinent. Bangladesh consists primarily of East Bengal (West Bengal is part of India and its people are primarily Hindu) plus the Sylhet district of the Indian state of Assam.
Buddhists ruled for centuries, but by the 10th century Bengal was primarily Hindu. In 1576, Bengal became part of the Mogul Empire, and the majority of East Bengalis converted to Islam. Bengal was ruled by British India from 1757 until Britain withdrew in 1947




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