Everything you need to know about Bangladesh
Follow Bangladeshโs rivers from the northern plains to Dhaka, the eastern hills and the Bay of Bengal. Learn its divisions, cities and waters, discover its history, food and communities, then practise Bengali. Bangla and Bengali name the same language; the country also has many other speech traditions and community languages.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Bangladesh
A country shaped by a great river delta, with hill country in the east and the Bay of Bengal to the south.
Know the shape of the country
Start with all eight divisions, then place twenty cities and towns and find six rivers, Kaptai Lake and the Bay of Bengal. Zoom in around Dhaka and the eastern hills. Division boundaries: geoBoundaries, CC0, generalised 2015 boundaries with current names. Rivers: ยฉ OpenStreetMap contributors via Overture Maps, ODbL 1.0. Lake and sea: Natural Earth, public domain. These are learning maps, and the sea area does not represent maritime claims.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Historic mosque
Sixty Dome Mosque
Brick arches and rows of domes fill the best-known mosque in Bagerhatโs fifteenth-century city. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage property.
Locate Dhakaโs riverfront landmarks, Bagerhatโs mosque city and the Buddhist ruins of Paharpur, then explore northern temples, tea-country forest and the delta coast. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Bengali with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Bangladesh, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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