Map of Bangladesh

Bangladesh is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 24.0° N, 90.0° E. It shares land borders with 2 countries — India and Myanmar — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Bangladesh is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Bangladesh shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Bangladesh covers about 147,570 km² (56,977 sq mi). That makes it the 92nd-largest country in the world by area and the 26th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 23 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 169,828,911, the 8th-largest in the world and the 5th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 3.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Bangladesh has an average population density of about 1,151 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 5th by population and 26th by area.

The seat of government is Dhaka, and the official currency is the Bangladeshi taka (BDT, ৳), and the main official language is Bengali. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+06:00.

Bangladesh carries the ISO country codes BD and BGD, dials on the international calling code +880 and uses the .bd internet domain.

Bangladesh shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are India (capital New Delhi, about 1,417,492,000 people) and Myanmar (capital Naypyidaw, about 51,316,756 people).

By area, Bangladesh is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 24.0° N, 90.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Bangladesh within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Dhaka. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Bangladesh lies about 2,664 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Bangladesh keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+06:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +06:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Bangladeshi taka (BDT, ৳).

The official language is Bengali, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +880 and websites commonly use the .bd internet domain.

In short, Bangladesh is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Dhaka. Bangladesh has a population of about 169,828,911 and covers around 147,570 km² (56,977 sq mi), ranking it 8th in the world by population and 92nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Bangladesh.

The flag of Bangladesh has a dark green field bearing a large red circle that is offset slightly towards the hoist side of center.

The flag of Bangladesh is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.