The official language is Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family.īangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of India in 1947. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi). Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols.īangladesh ( / ˌ b æ ŋ ɡ l ə ˈ d ɛ ʃ, ˌ b ɑː ŋ-/ Bengali: বাংলাদেশ, pronounced ( listen)), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
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