BANGLADESH

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BANGLADESH
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Bangladesh Introduction

• The full name of the country People's Republic
  of Bangladesh. Area 143998 km. Population 129
  million people. Capital Dhaka
• Ethnic groups Bengali 98, tribal groups,
  non-Bengali Muslims (1998)
• Religions Muslim 83, Hindu 16, other 1 (1998)
  
• Languages Bengal, English.
• The main partners the Countries of the Western
  Europe, the USA, Hong Kong, Japan, India, China,
  Singapore

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C l i m a t e
The climates of Bangladesh are subtropical and
tropical. The temperature is about 21 degrees of
Celsius in a cold season and about 35 degrees of
Celsius in the hottest season. Bangladesh has
three main seasons a damp season " it begins
from the end of May till on the beginning of
October " a cold season "it begins from the
middle of October till end of February and " a
hot season " (known to Bangladesh as " a season
of small rains ") which begins from the middle of
March up to the middle of May. There is also a
season of cyclones - from May till October and
from October till November.

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The nature

• In a hot and damp subtropical climate the huge
  quantity of various plants grows in Bangladesh.
  Despite of it, woods borrow only 7, 5 areas
  Bangladesh. Marshy tropical wood Sandarac is
  widely known in the world, that it means the
  Beautiful wood ", it is in the southwest of the
  country. There are about 334 kinds of flowers
  grow in this area.
• Kat Hal is a breadfruit tree. Its juicy, with
  orange pulp fruits can reach 10 kg.
• About 60 lands of Bangladesh borrow fields where
  grow rice and jute. Among the locusts fields
  there are villages. Countrymen usually surround
  the houses with trees of a mango, litchi, coconut
  palm trees, palm trees of the Indian plum, trees
  Jackfruit and thickets of banana trees.

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C u l t u r e

Bangladesh has a various cultural heritages.
Ancient traditions, they are Buddhists, Hindu and
Moslems. Weaving, manufacturing of clay products
and terracotta sculptures - one of the earliest
forms of art self-expression. The most known
literary great works of Bangladesh poems are
Rabindranata Tag ore and Nasrulla. In village
folk is very popular and the theatre performances
are usually arranged during a holiday of
harvesting or during fairs. Bangladesh has a
various national dances, but classical dances,
basically borrowed at Hindus.
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R e l i g i o n

Bangladesh is the country of several religions.
They are Muslim 83, Hindu 16, Buddhists - 0,6,
Christians - 0,3 and other 1. The constitution
guarantees all representatives rights of any
religion
Weddings to Bangladesh amaze with the grandness
They proceed, as a rule, some days. The big
number of visitors is invited, The rich table
will be organized, Gold ornaments for the bride
are ordered.
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T r a d i t i o n

• People of Bangladesh have not lost their rituals
  and traditions. In a countryside youth welcomes
  seniors a capture of ashes from legs ". It gives
  the privilege to the first to begin any action
  the Birth of the child mark distribution of
  sweets, as they say Sandish or Sandish Pitcha.
  Visitors are invited to a celebration they bring
  to the child gifts. They usually put on the small
  child on temple black spot antimony from a
  malefic. The empty jug, a branch of a brittle
  willow, odd number, birds Salikh or a corpse -
  is considered by all this as an adverse sign for
  the beginning travel. The banana tree is- a
  subject for reverential fear. The Countryman
  never will go by it at night. A birth of the boy
  regard as success, and the birth of the daughter
  in most cases are undesirable. They say that the
  daughter should be married and she brings
  something as present to husbands relatives.
  Moslems and Christians bury bodies died on
  cemeteries, Hindus burn them. Moslems spend
  commemoration "kulich an" for the fourth day of
  death, and Christians on fourteenth (covers). But
  Hindus has another ritual.

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National holidays

• On February, 21st - Day of memory of heroes
• On March, 26th - Day of independence
• On April, 14th (15) - Bengalese New year
• On May, 1st - May day
• On December, 16th - Day of a victory
• On December, 25th - Christmas
• The holidays marked on a lunar calendar
• The Buddha Purnima
• Juma-Tull-Bida
• Id-Ul-Fitr
• Id-Ul-Azkha
• Id-e-Miladunabi
• Durga-Puja

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S p o r t s

• As other nations as India or Pakistan Bangladesh
  population love all kinds of sports football
  (soccer), cricket and field hockey.

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? i t c h e n

• Bangladesh people, probably, the greatest fans to
  eat on all Indian subcontinents. Cooking - long
  enough ceremony which became a part of Bangladesh
  culture. Culinary preferences to Bangladesh were
  to some extent defined with a geographical
  position of the country. The fertile ground
  supplies inhabitants with various vegetables,
  fruit. A variety of Bangladesh dishes unusually
  the same as Asia dishes. But the greatest variety
  ways of preparation of a fish differ. Bangladesh
  use uncountable set of ways of preparation of a
  fish prepared on pair or stewed with vegetables,
  stewed with greens or vegetables in mustard or
  flower sauce.

The typical Bangladesh food consists of a beef
(or sometimes mutton, chicken meat or eggs) and
the vegetables prepared in hot sharp sauce with
mustard, lentil and white fig. the Fish is a
component of a daily diet, but excessive fishing
has led to an exhaustion of fish stocks in the
rivers, therefore in the menu even more often
there are various kinds of sea fishes. Not
everywhere it is possible to order alcoholic
drinks, for this purpose it is better to you to
go to restaurants of five stored hotels.
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Restaurant
Menu Chicken with tomatoes Baked -meat
Chicken-fried Kerry from meat Fish and sea
products Fishes in mustard souses Kerry from
Carps Vegetables Kerry from cabbages
Potatoes with cabbages Bangladesh salads
Bangladesh vegetables Pressed mustard-potato
Dishes from beans soup-sauces with beans
Sweets Nuts Internet Center Rudaki