Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Dhaka
- Region
- Asia, Southern Asia
- Population
- 175,686,899 (2025)
- Area
- 144,000 km²
- Currency
- Bangladeshi taka (BDT)
- Languages
- Bengali, English
- Calling code
- +880
- Internet domain
- .bd
- ISO codes
- BD, BGD, 050
- Time zone
- UTC+6:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- #### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Bangladesh covers about 144,000 square kilometres. By area it ranks 95th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Suriname and a little larger than Tajikistan. It shares a land border with 2 neighbours: India, Myanmar. Its centre lies at about 24° north, 90° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 176 million people live in Bangladesh (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 8th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 2.1 percent of the world's people. On average there are 1,220 people to each square kilometre. About 33 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 75 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Bengali, English. A person from Bangladesh is called Bangladeshi.
Money and economy
The currency is the Bangladeshi taka (code BDT, symbol ৳). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 456 billion (2025), which is about US$ 2,597 for each person (2025).
Time
Bangladesh uses one time zone, UTC+6:00 (Asia/Dhaka). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Dhaka | 10,356,500 |
| Chattogram | 3,920,222 |
| Gazipur | 2,674,697 |
| Khulna | 1,500,689 |
| Rangpur | 1,031,388 |
| Rajshahi | 763,580 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Southern Asia
Afghanistan, Bhutan, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.