Bangladesh

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River delta

Dhaka, 14 million people

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Flood defences hard engineering

  • The Coastal Embankment Project (CEP) built 4,000 km of embankments along Bangladesh's coastline and major rivers.


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Number large islands subsided since 1960

50, subsided by 1.5m

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Mangroves

Contains 180km sundrabans, 71% experiencing vegetation removal, erosion rate 200m pa

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Monsoon season

Some parts of Ganges basin receive 500mm rainfall a day

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Shape

Funnel

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Ice melting from

The himalayas

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_% of the country is floodplain

80%

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Population density

920 people per 39km

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Predict will lose _% of land by 2050

17

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½ population less that

5m above sea level