Bangladesh is bounded north, west, and east by India, southeast by Myanmar, and south by the Bay of Bengal. It name means ‘Bengal nation.’
Present-day Bangladesh was formed into the eastern province of Pakistan when India was partitioned 1947.
Substantially different in culture, language, and geography from Western Pakistan, it resented their political and military dominance. A movement for political autonomy gained strength as a result of West Pakistan's indifference, when flooding killed 500,000 in East Pakistan in 1970.
In 1971 Civil war resulted in the flight of 10 million East Pakistani refugees to India and the West Pakistani forces in East Pakistan surrendered after India intervened on the secessionists' side. A republic of Bangladesh was proclaimed and rapidly gained international recognition in 1972.
Since the early 1980s claims have been made that the majority of the drinking water in the country was contaminated by arsenic, as a result of the tubewells program established in 1972 by international aid agencies which was supposed to guarantee safe drinking water, but instead bored down to a subterranean layer of arsenic. It was estimated that, in 1998, 75 million people were at risk from arsenic poisoning.
Bangladesh is the most densely populated country in the world, with more than 2,600 people per sq mi. Only 15% of the people live in urban areas.
75% of women have their first child by the age of 17 and close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18.
In Bangladesh, children as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
Source Hutchinson Encyclopedia © RM 2012. Helicon Publishing is division of RM.
Present-day Bangladesh was formed into the eastern province of Pakistan when India was partitioned 1947.
Substantially different in culture, language, and geography from Western Pakistan, it resented their political and military dominance. A movement for political autonomy gained strength as a result of West Pakistan's indifference, when flooding killed 500,000 in East Pakistan in 1970.
In 1971 Civil war resulted in the flight of 10 million East Pakistani refugees to India and the West Pakistani forces in East Pakistan surrendered after India intervened on the secessionists' side. A republic of Bangladesh was proclaimed and rapidly gained international recognition in 1972.
Since the early 1980s claims have been made that the majority of the drinking water in the country was contaminated by arsenic, as a result of the tubewells program established in 1972 by international aid agencies which was supposed to guarantee safe drinking water, but instead bored down to a subterranean layer of arsenic. It was estimated that, in 1998, 75 million people were at risk from arsenic poisoning.
Bangladesh is the most densely populated country in the world, with more than 2,600 people per sq mi. Only 15% of the people live in urban areas.
75% of women have their first child by the age of 17 and close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18.
In Bangladesh, children as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
Source Hutchinson Encyclopedia © RM 2012. Helicon Publishing is division of RM.
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