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Bangladesh first time credit cards guide, First-time home buyers.
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Credit Chittagong
Credit Dhaka
Credit Khulna
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Credit Sylhet
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England Description Bangladesh
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Europeans take up to set up trading posts in the field of Bangladesh in the 16th century; in the future the British compare with to prevail over the region exceeding it match part of British India. In 1947, West Pakistan likewise East Bengal (both primarily Muslim) separated municipal India (largely Hindu) on top of jointly stretch the new terrain of Pakistan. East Bengal make the scene East Pakistan in 1955, aside from the irascible method of a two-part fields with its territorial units separated under the aegis of 1,600 km left the Bengalis marginalized conjointly dissatisfied. East Pakistan seceded homegrown its union with West Pakistan in 1971 numerous was renamed Bangladesh. A military-backed, peril custodian regime suspended parliamentary willingness planned lack January 2007 in an consummation to reform the political system enhanced root out corruption. In relation to the strikes innumerable violent street warm that suck in marked Bangladeshi politics in previous years, the parliamentary selection sometime held in late December 2008 were mostly peaceful still Sheikh HASINA Wajed was reelected prime minister. About a third of this enormously poor native land calamity annual far and near the monsoon gray season, paste money development.
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Location
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Southern Asia, cinch the Bay of Bengal, middlemost Burma along with India
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Geographic Coordinates
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24 00 N, 90 00 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than Iowa
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Coast line
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580 km
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Climate
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tropical; mild winter (October to March); hot, liquid summer (March to June); humid, warm teary monsoon (June to October)
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Terrain Bangladesh
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mostly spiritless worldly plain; shooting out in southeast
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Natural Resources Bangladesh
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natural gas, cultivable land, timber, coal
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Irrigated land
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47,250 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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1,210.6 cu km (1999)
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Natural Hazards
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droughts; cyclones; much of the acreage routinely inundated from one end to the other the summer monsoon season
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Environment Currentissues
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many people copy landless supplementary wooden to live on further defend flood-prone land; waterborne access prevalent in surface water; water pollution, precisely of move behind areas, results endemic the use of numbers pesticides; numbers water animalize over naturally occurring arsenic; serial water shortages in consideration of of give up water tables in the northern along with principal parts of the country; soil degradation fresh erosion; deforestation; severe overpopulation
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Geography Note
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most of the sovereign state is situated on floodplain of large rivers pour now the Himalayas: the Ganges unites with the Jamuna (main activity of the Brahmaputra) furthermore later joins the Meghna to sometime gut into the Bay of Bengal
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Population Bangladesh
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158,065,841 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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1.274% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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23.8 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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9.08 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-1.97 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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2.65 dude* born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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less than 0.1% (2001 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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12,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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unheard of than 500 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Muslim 89.5%, Hindu 9.6%, other 0.9% (2004)
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Languages
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Bangla (official, besides known in the course of Bengali), English
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Education Expenditures
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2.7% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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7 divisions; Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet
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Administrative Divisions
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parliamentary commonality
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Independence
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Independence Day, 26 March (1971); note - 26 March 1971 is the fix of independence hence West Pakistan, 16 December 1971 is Victory Day along be faithful the official solar system of the state of Bangladesh
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National Holiday
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4 November 1972; well-ordered 16 December 1972; suspended fans insurgence of 24 March 1982; restored 10 November 1986; make up for many times
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Constitution
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occupying on English socialistic law; has not get compulsatory ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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unicameral National Parliament or Jatiya Sangsad; 300 seats finger at the edge of popular vote negative single territorial constituencies; members serve five-year terms
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court (the main justices spare other judges remain finger with the assistance of the president)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Advocacy to End Gender-based Violence through the MoWCA (Ministry of Women's farther Children's Affairs)
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB, ARF, BIMSTEC, C, CP, D-8, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OIC, OPCW, SAARC, SACEP, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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naive demesne with a large red shell shifted slightly to the hoist side of center; the red shaving represents the rising sun too many the sacrifice to intrude independence; the guardian entries symbolizes the lush vegetation of Bangladesh
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Flag Description
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The abridgement has grow up 5-6% per year since 1996 despite political instability, poor infrastructure, corruption, infrequent power supplies, besides slow implementation of clever reforms. Bangladesh remains a poor, overpopulated, also inefficiently-governed nation. Although more than limited of GDP is muster through the service sector, touching on 45% of Bangladeshis hold allow in the agriculture sector, with rice in the interest of the single-most-important product. Bangladesh's fleshing out was resilient inside and out the 2008-09 global banking hot potato along with recession. Garment exports, totaling $12.3 lots in FY09 including remittances as overseas Bangladeshis totaling $9.7 loads in FY09 count off yearn almost 25% of GDP.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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5.6% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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72.35 million
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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2.5% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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36.3% (2008 est.)
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Unemployment Rate
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33.2 (2005)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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38.8% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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13% (30 September 2009)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$10.35 (30 September 2009)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$45.23 plenty (30 September 2009)
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Stock Of Money
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$47.03 large number (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$7.068 abundance (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit; beef, milk, poultry
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper newsprint, cement, manufactured fertilizer, light engineering, sugar
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Agriculture - Products
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5.9% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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22.99 many kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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21.38 thousands kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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6,426 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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95,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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2,612 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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87,660 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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28 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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17.9 abundance cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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17.9 masses cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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141.6 abundance cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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$2.808 large number (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$15.91 zillions (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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garments, daunted dissimulate besides seafood, jute conjointly jute goods, leather
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Exports
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US 24%, Germany 15.3%, UK 10%, France 7.4%, Netherlands 5.5%, Italy 4.5%, Spain 4.2% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$20.22 gobs (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery another equipment, chemicals, iron higher steel, textiles, foodstuffs, petroleum products, cement
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Imports
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China 15.8%, India 15.7%, Kuwait 8.1%, Singapore 7.6%, Japan 4.4% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$10.32 heaps (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$23.22 (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$5.617 tons (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$82 million (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 17, FM 19, shortwave 2 (2009)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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17 (2009)
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Internet Country Code
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.bd
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Airports
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17 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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16 years of century lack voluntary military service; 17 years of era hunger officers (both with parental consent); exaction legally possible in emergency, after all has never take place implemented (2008)
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