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Bangladesh

Bangladesh

48 2.5
A country in southern Asia next to India and Myanmar by the Bay of Bengal
  • proper noun
  • /ˌbæŋɡləˈdɛʃ/
: Bangladés
  • The capital city of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is one of the most densely populated cities in the world.
  • India and Bangladesh
  • Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Pakistan and Bangladesh

However, can the garment workers in Bangladesh now live from their jobs?

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Examples

  • Add India, add Bangladesh, these big populous countries and in Asia in particular took a lot of people out of poverty.

  • Consultant service life is very difficult in Bangladesh, especially if one is a woman.

  • So people who might even not know where Bangladesh is, it's on the left side on the map of India.

  • In January, we left for Bangladesh, where we lived for two years.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • So I want to remind you of the relationship of Bangladesh to India.

  • That might mean the difference between whether Bangladesh is underwater, right?

  • In other news tonight, a massive relief effort is... underway to help the victims of new flooding in Bangladesh.

  • The Government of Bangladesh conducted enhanced event-based surveillance in the context of emergency response.

    Academic text (2012)
  • I'm from Bangladesh, neighbor to Myanmar or Burma.

  • He lived in the Gangetic Delta, Bangladesh, one of the largest delta regions in the world.

Synonyms

1 3.5

A country in South Asia next to India and the Bay of Bengal

is the common country name rather than the formal official title

Compounds

A country in South Asia next to India and the Bay of Bengal

Surface Forms

Bangladesh main

Etymology

Bangladesh comes from two Bengali words: Bangla meaning 'Bengal' and desh meaning 'country' or 'land'. So Bangladesh literally means 'the country of Bengal', which explains its modern use as the nation's name.