Over 160 million people live in a country four times the size of Switzerland. Bangladesh has the eighth-highest population density in the world and is growing rapidly. People are teeming everywhere, especially in Dhaka! It is a challenging city because it is rough, noisy, dirty, and sometimes foggy.
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