India Jamuna River Bangladesh Dhaka Meghna River Ganges River Bay of Bengal W 4 N S E Myanmar Burma Where Is Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a small tropical country in South Asia It covers 57,321 square miles 148,460 square kilometers India surrounds most of the country Myanmar also called Burma borders the southeastern side The Bay of Bengal lies to the south Bangladesh’s capital city Dhaka sits in the center of the country Many rivers and waterways flow through the land The Ganges the Jamuna and the Meghna are the largest rivers The three rivers join together in the center of the country They flow southward into the Bay of Bengal 5
Much of Bangladesh is a delta Low-lying land near the Mouths of the Ganges area forms most of the country’s solid ground In this area many of the country’s rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal River silt piles up on banks and becomes fertile land Bangladesh is mainly flat One of its highest mountains Keokradong only rises about 4,000 feet 1,200 meters Small hills blanketed in evergreen forests rise in the southeast Mangrove forests grow in the southwest Boro rice and other crops cover much of the land in the north and west Bangladesh’s tropical weather includes a rainy monsoon season These rains often bring heavy flooding to the country Sometimes they also bring cyclones One of the heaviest hailstones ever fell in Bangladesh in 1986 It weighed 2 2 pounds 1 kilogram 6 The Land
