Dhaka, Bangladesh has a population of over 12 million, making it the largest and most densely populated city in Bangladesh. Bangladesh as a whole has a population density of 1045 people per square kilometer and is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. The country experiences heavy monsoon rains and frequent flooding due to its location in the Ganges Delta.

2. Population density

3. Dhaka Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, has a population of over 12,000,000 making it the capital and largest city in Bangladesh.

4. Rickshaws Rickshaws in Old Dhaka

5. agriculture Rice paddies emerge from the early morning mist near the town of Chuknagar in southern Bangladesh.

6. agriculture

7. Densely populated

8. Population Recent estimates of Bangladesh's population range from 142 to 159 million, making it the 7th most populous nation in the world. Bangladesh has the highest population density in the world-1045/km2-excluding a handful of city-states and small countries such as Bahrain.

9. Monsoon A wind that blows northward from the Indian Ocean towards the Asian continent, carrying moist air with it .

10. Monsoon cloud Heavy thunderstorms near Jamalpur, northern Bangladesh. Evident in much of the photo is the silt-laden Brahmaputra River and its branches in floodstage, flowing towards the Bay of Bengal.

11. Storm Warnings Storm warning: At the government weather station in the port town of Mongla, murals give local residents instructions on how to protect their homes and families in the event of a cyclone.

12. Flooding Tropical monsoons and frequent floods and cyclones inflict heavy damage in the delta region

13. Monsoon hazards

14. The devastating monsoon season of 1998 left nearly 70% of Bangladesh underwater for 2 months.

15. It may be observed that the central regions of Bangladesh are highly contaminated. The levels of arsenic in tubewell water as shown in BGS and DPHE study are also high in the central region The area of high arsenic concentration very well fit with the areas of Bangladesh submerged by flood.

16. Pakistan The Partition The borders of Bangladesh were set by the partition of India in 1947, when it became the eastern wing of Pakistan, separated from the western wing by 1,000 miles.

17. Civil War The Bangladesh Liberation War was an armed conflict pitting West Pakistan against East Pakistan (two halves of one country) and India, that resulted in the secession of East Pakistan to become the independent nation of Bangladesh. This stamp commemorates the largest surrender of POWs since WWII

18. Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Lt. Gen A. A. K. Niazi of Pakistan signs the instrument of surrender on December 16, surrendering his forces to Lt. Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora of Indian army.

19. Bangladesh Surrounded by India, this country on the northern coast of the Bay of Bengal shares a small common border with Myanmar.

20. The country is low-lying riverine land traversed by the many branches and tributaries of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers.

21. Delta formed as the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal after dividing up into many distributaries

22. Rabindranath Tagore The Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer from Santiniketan, became in 1913 the first Asian Nobel laureate. He won his Nobel Prize in Literature for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literatures of Europe and the Americas.