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The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ আবহাওয়া অধিদপ্তর) also known as Abhawa Office (Weather Office), is the national meteorological organization of Bangladesh, working under Ministry of Defense of the Government of Bangladesh.
Mapping Bangladesh (Bengali: ম্যাপিং বাংলাদেশ) is an online based community in Bangladesh constituted of mappers working to develop digital mapping system through contributions of citizen cartographers on Google Map Maker.
Source 2: Bangladesh Meteorological Department (humidity 1981–2010), [2] [3] Sistema de Clasificación Bioclimática Mundial (extremes 1934–1994) [4] References These references will appear in the article, but this list appears only on this page.
Climate change has forced many people of Bangladesh living in rural areas to migrate to cities that has caused a sharp rise in the slum population of Dhaka. [8] As Bangladesh is already less than 20 feet above sea level, thus there are fears that by the end of the 21st century, more than a quarter of the country will be inundated and 15 million people will be displaced. [8]
Several important installations of the Bangladesh Army are also situated in Dhaka and Mirpur Cantonments. The Bangladesh Navy's principal administrative and logistics base, BNS Haji Mohshin, is located in Dhaka. [140] The Bangladesh Air Force maintains the BAF Bangabandhu Air Base and BAF Khademul Bashar Air Base in Dhaka. [141]
Greater Dhaka is the Megalopolis including and surrounding the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka, which has grown into one of the world's largest megacities, and shows a very rapid rate of expansion. Dhaka not only grows because it is the capital and largest urban center but also due to massive internal displacement from millions of people ...
The 2024 Bangladesh heatwave is a significant climatic event and affecting the South Asian nation of Bangladesh. [1] Characterized by extremely high temperatures that have reached up to 42°C (108 F), [2] 1 6 degrees more than the annual average, [3] the heatwave has led to nationwide school closures, impacting an estimated 33 million children's education. [3]
Dhaka District (Bengali: ঢাকা জেলা, romanized: Ḍhākā jēlā) is a district in central Bangladesh, [6] and is the densest district in the nation. It is a part of the Dhaka Division. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and rests on the eastern banks of the Buriganga River which flows from the Turag to