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Twitter MdShariarAlam. Write to the State Minister. Masud Bin Momen. Senior Secretary. Write to the Foreign Secretary. The Jamuna-Brahmaputra is kilometers long and extends from northern Bangladesh to its confluence with the Padma. At the point where the Brahmaputra meets the TistaRiver in Bangladesh, it becomes known as the Jamuna. The Jamuna is notorious for its shifting subchannels and for the formation of fertile silt islands chars. No permanent settlements can exist along its banks.
The second system is the Padma-Ganges, which is divided into two sections: a kilometer segment, the Ganges, which extends from the western border with India to its confluence with the Jamuna some 72 kilometers west of Dhaka, and a kilometer segment, the Padma, which runs from the Ganges-Jamuna confluence to where it joins the MeghnaRiver at Chandpur. The Padma-Ganges is the central part of a deltaic river system with hundreds of rivers and streams—some 2, kilometers in length—flowing generally east or west into the Padma.
The third network is the Surma-Meghna River System, which courses from the northeastern border with India to Chandpur, where it joins the Padma.
The Surma-Meghna, at kilometers by itself the longest river in Bangladesh, is formed by the union of six lesser rivers. Below the city of Kalipur it is known as the Meghna. When the Padma and Meghna join together, they form the fourth river system—the Padma-Meghna—which flows kilometers to the Bay of Bengal.
This mighty network of four river systems flowing through the Bangladesh Plain drains an area of some 1. The numerous channels of the Padma-Meghna, its distributaries, and smaller parallel rivers that flow into the Bay of Bengal are referred to as the Mouths of the Ganges. Like the Jamuna, the Padma-Meghna and other estuaries on the Bay of Bengal are also known for their many chars. A fifth river system, unconnected to the other four, is the Karnaphuli.
Flowing through the region of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hills, it cuts across the hills and runs rapidly downhill to the west and southwest and then to the sea.
The Feni, Karnaphuli, Sangu, and Matamuhari—an aggregate of some kilometers—are the main rivers in the region. The port of Chittagong is situated on the banks of the Karnaphuli. The Karnaphuli Reservoir and Karnaphuli Dam are located in this area. During the annual monsoon period, the rivers of Bangladesh flow at about , cubic meters per second, but during the dry period they diminish to 7, cubic meters per second.
Major water control projects have been developed by the national government to provide irrigation, flood control, drainage facilities, aids to river navigation and road construction, and hydroelectric power. In addition, thousands of tube wells and electric pumps are used for local irrigation. Despite severe resource constraints, the government of Bangladesh has made it a policy to try to bring additional areas under irrigation without salinity intrusion.
Land boundaries: total: 4, km border countries: Myanmar km, India 4, km. Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 18 nmi Land use: Arable land: Geographical Location of Bangladesh. Geographical Location of Bangladesh Bangladesh is a low-lying, riverine country located in South Asia with a largely marshy jungle coastline of km mi on the northern littoral of the Bay of Bengal.
The cyclones of and were particularly devastating. A cyclone that struck Bangladesh in killed some , people. In September , Bangladesh saw the most severe flooding in modern world history. As the Brahmaputra , the Ganges and Meghna spilt over and swallowed , houses, 9, kilometres 6, mi of road and 2, kilometres 1, mi of embankment 1, people were killed and 30 million more were made homeless with , cattle killed, 50 square kilometres Two-thirds of the country was underwater.
There were several reasons for the severity of the flooding. Firstly, there were unusually high monsoon rains. Secondly, the Himalayas shed off an equally unusually high amount of melt water that year.
Thirdly, trees that usually would have intercept rain water had been cut down for firewood or to make space for animals. Bangladesh is now widely recognized to be one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. It is believed that in the coming decades the rising sea level alone will create more than 20 million climate refugees. Bangladeshi water is contaminated with arsenic frequently because of the high arsenic contents in the soil.
Up to 77 million people are exposed to toxic arsenic from drinking water. Bangladesh is among the countries most prone to natural floods , tornados and cyclones.
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