🔷Some important general knowledge about Bangladesh is given below.


✪ Area: 1,47,610 sq km

✪Bangladesh' was named in: 1969

December 5

✪Country Name: People's Republic of Bangladesh

✪English name: The people's Republic of Bangladesh.

✪ Victory: 16 December 1971

✪Independence and National Day: 26 March

✪Victory Day: 16 December

✪Colonies were: First to UK

(1757-1947) and later to Pakistan

(1947-1971)

✪Gain of independence: from Pakistan.

✪ Membership of the United Nations: 17 of 1974

September (29th Session)

✪ Capital: Dhaka

✪ Commercial capital: Chittagong

✪National Language: Bengali (98 percent)

✪Majority Community: Muslim (90.39%), Hindu

(8.54%), Buddhist (0.62%), Christian (0.31%) and others

(0.14%)

✪Government System: Parliamentary system of government

✪Legislative Assembly: National Parliament

✪Local Time: Greenwich Standard Time 6+ hours

✪ Sending troops to UN peacekeeping missions: 2nd

✪Total tribes are 50

✪Total seats in National Parliament: 350 (Elected

300 and reserved female seats 50)

✪National Parliament Elections Held: 11 times

✪Weather stations: 4

✪Weather stations: 35

✪Everest winning country: 67th

✪UNESCO declared World Heritage: 3 (sixty domes

Mosque, Paharpur Buddhist Vihara and Sundarbans)

✪Administrative Divisions: 8 (Latest Mymensingh)

✪ Districts: 64

✪City Corporation: 12 (12th Mymensingh City

Corporation)

Municipalities: 328

✪ Upazila: 495

✪ Police station: 652

✪Union: 4562

✪ Villages: 87191

✪Bangladesh's position in the world by volume: 94th

✪Earthquake monitoring stations: 4

✪Warning signals for river ports: 4

✪Warning signals for sea ports: 11

✪Coastal Districts: 19

✪States of India bordering Bangladesh: 5

✪West Bengal of India bordering Bangladesh

District: 8

✪Position in the world in terms of population: 8th

✪Position in Asian continent in terms of population: 5th

✪Position among South Asia in terms of population: 3rd

✪Position in the Muslim world by population: 4th

✪Bordering countries: 2 (India, Myanmar)

✪Census conducted: 5 times

✪Mukti Juddha Sector Number: 11

✪Registered political parties: 39

✪Geo-satellite stations: 4

✪Number of identical rivers: 57

✪ Rivers of international standard: 1 (Padma)

✪Official Notes: 3 (1 Taka, 2 Taka and 5 Taka)

✪Bank notes: 7 (10 to 1000 rupee notes)

✪Share Markets: 2 (DSE & CSE)

✪EPZ: 10 (Government 8 and Private 2)

✪Government held: 3 times (in 1977, 1985 and 1991)

✪Emergency declared: 5 times

✪Upzilla elections held Total: 5 times

✪International Airports: 3

✪Mobile Phone Operators: 6 (Citycell, Rural

Phone, Robi, Banglalink, Teletalk, Airtel)

✪Total Articles of the Constitution: 153

✪Constitution amended: 17 times

✪Bangladesh Bank Branches: 10 (latest

Mymensingh)

✪ Awarded for his contribution to the Liberation War

Freedom fighters: 672 people

✪Gas fields: 28

✪Seaports: 3 (Chittagong, Mangla, Payra)

✪Land Ports: 25

✪Total Ministries: 41

✪Tea gardens: 167

✪Government Television: 2

✪Cadet College: 12 (9 for boys,

3 for girls)

✪Member States of the United Nations: 136th

✪Member States of OIC: 32nd

✪Border Districts: 32 (30 with India,

3 with Myanmar, 2 with Rangamati

It is on the border of the country.