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River delta
Dhaka, 14 million people
Flood defences hard engineering
The Coastal Embankment Project (CEP) built 4,000 km of embankments along Bangladesh's coastline and major rivers.
Number large islands subsided since 1960
50, subsided by 1.5m
Mangroves
Contains 180km sundrabans, 71% experiencing vegetation removal, erosion rate 200m pa
Monsoon season
Some parts of Ganges basin receive 500mm rainfall a day
Shape
Funnel
Ice melting from
The himalayas
_% of the country is floodplain
80%
Population density
920 people per 39km
Predict will lose _% of land by 2050
17
Ā½ population less that
5m above sea level
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