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| Location | Southern Asia, bordering the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and India |
| Geographic coordinates | 24 00 N, 90 00 E |
| Map references | asia |
| Area |
total: 144,000 sq km land: 133,910 sq km water: 10,090 sq km |
| Area comparative | slightly smaller than Iowa |
| Land boundaries |
total: 4,246 km border countries: burma 193 km, india 4,053 km |
| Coastline | 580 km |
| Maritime claims |
territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: up to the outer limits of the continental margin contiguous zone: 18 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm |
| 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 |
| Natural resources | natural gas, arable land, timber, coal |
| Land use |
arable land: 62.11% permanent crops: 3.07% other: 34.82% (2001) |
| Irrigated land | 38,440 sq km (1998 est.) |
| 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; water-borne 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 |
| Environment - international agreements |
party to: biodiversity, climate change, climate change-kyoto protocol, desertification, endangered species, environmental modification, hazardous wastes, law of the sea, ozone layer protection, wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
| Geography note | most of the country is situated on deltas of large rivers flowing from the Himalayas: the ganges unites with the jamuna (main channel of the brahmaputra) and later joins the meghna to eventually empty into the bay of bengal |
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