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CONTINGENT: Bangladesh Cultural Academy COORDINATED BY: President: Mr. Chaman Ara Begum Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) is an independent country in southern Asia located on the Bay of Bengal, bounded on most of its borders by India and to the southeast by Myanmar (Burma); it occupies a total area of 143,998 sq km (55,598 sq mi). Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated and fastest-growing countries. DHAKA (Dacca) is the capital city. Bangladesh is an overwhelmingly agricultural country, with rich farmland and major crops of rice and jute. Before 1947, most of the territory now in Bangladesh was part of the province of British-ruled India known as East Bengal which in 1947 joined with the Sylhet district of Assam and became East Pakistan in the new state of Pakistan. Growing economic and political differences with West Pakistan led East Pakistan to declare independence in 1971 as the new nation of Bangladesh. The name Bangladesh means "the Bengal nation." Not all who speak the Bengali language and otherwise identify with the cultural history of Bengal, however, are included within Bangladesh boundaries; many Bengalis live to the west of Bangladesh in the Indian province of West Bengal. |
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