General Information of Bd

President | Mohammad Zillur Rahman |

Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina Wazed |

Capital | Dhaka |

Location | Southern Asia, bordering the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and India |

Geographic coordinates | 24 00 N, 90 00 E |

Area | Total: 143,998 sq km

Land : 130,168 sq km

Water : 13,830 sq km |

Land boundaries | Total:4,246 km

border countries:Burma 193 km, India 4,053 km |

Coastline | 580 km |

Maritime claims | Contagious zone:18 nm

continental shelf:up to the outer limits of the continental margin

exclusive economic zone:200 nm

territorial sea:12nm |

Climate | Tropical; mild winter (October to March); hot, humid summer (March to June); humid, warm rainy monsoon (June to October) |

Terrain | Mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast |

Elevation extremes | Lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m

highest point: Keokradong 1,230 m |

Land use | Arable land: 55.39%

Permanent crops: 3.08%

Other: 41.53% (2005) |

Natural resources | Natural gas, arable land, timber, coal |

Irrigated land | 47,250 sq km (approx.) |

Total renewable water resources | 1,210.6 cu km |

Natural hazards | Droughts; cyclones; much of the country routinely inundated during the summer monsoon season |

Environment - current issues | Many people are landless and forced to live on and cultivate flood-prone land; waterborne diseases prevalent in surface water; water pollution, especially of fishing areas, results from the use of commercial pesticides; ground water contaminated by naturally occurring arsenic; intermittent water shortages because of falling water tables in the northern and central parts of the country; soil degradation and erosion; deforestation; severe overpopulation

party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto |

Environment-international agreements | Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not...