Bangladesh is a unitary, independent and sovereign Republic known as the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Bangladesh emerged as an independent country on March 26, 1971. The war of liberation ended on 16 December 1971 with the victory of Bangladesh forces and the surrender of the occupying Pakistani Army. The area was under Muslim rule for five and a half centuries and passed into British rule in 1757 AD. During the British rule it was a part of the British Indian province of Bengal and Assam. In August 1947 it gained independence from British rule along with the rest of India and formed part of Pakistan known as East Pakistan until it became independent.1 The country is an alluvial deltaic plain divided into three zones, namely hills, terraces, and flood plains. The country has an approximate area of 147,570 sq km bounded between India and Burma and bordering the Bay of Bengal. It has a unique geographical location on the lower part of the basins of three powerful rivers, the Padma, Brahmaputra, and Meghna.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:03:05 +0000
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