Ash Khan
11 Ma
The Bangladesh Floods.
Is Nature or Human Activity to blame? What can be done to prevent a repeat of the 1998 flood disaster in the future?
Bangladesh is a small less economically developed country situated in Southern Asia. It is mostly surrounded by its neighbour India although it does share an Eastern border with Myanmar (Burma) and to the south it faces the Bay of Bengal. It is the world’s largest delta with a total area of over 148 000 square kilometres which is just slightly smaller than England and Wales. Its population however is more than double that of the whole of the UK at over 126 million people. This makes Bangladesh’s population density over 850 people per sq km. The main use of the land in Bangladesh is for farming with 75% being arable farmland producing mostly crops of rice and wheat. 5% of the land is pasture, while 15% is forest meaning that only 5% of Bangladesh is actually urban. This is because Bangladesh is a relatively young country gaining independence from Pakistan on 16th December 1971 making it only 32 years old. It has one main international airport at Dhaka although there are others around the country. E.g. in Sylhet.
