Bangladesch

• Volksrepublik Bangladesch
• präsidiale Republik
  mit Mehrparteiensystem
• Eigenbezeichnung: Gana Prajatantri
• früherer Namen:
  Ost-Bengalen
  Ost-Pakistan

• People's Republic of Bangladesh
• presidial republic
  with multi-party-system
• self-designation: Gana Prajatantri
• former names:
  East Bengal
  East Pakistan

• heutige Flaggen
• historische Flagge
• Bedeutung/Ursprung der Flagge
• Wappen
• Bedeutung/Ursprung des Wappens
• Landkarte
• Zahlen und Fakten
• Geschichte
• Ursprung des Landesnamens
• Sezessionsstaat Chittagong-Bergland

• today's Flags
• historical Flag
• Meaning/Origin of the Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms
• Map
• Numbers and Facts
• History
• Sezession State of Chittagong Hill Tracts
• Origin of the Country's Name

On the 25th of January in 1972, according to other sources on 13th of January 1972, this flag was changed to its present form, probably due to production-technological difficulties. The flag was created by Serajul Alam ("light of the flag"). Green is the color of Islam, but also stands for the green countryside, and red symbolizes the blood given for the independence. The disk is the sun of freedom. The colours green and red probably go back to flag flown during a revolt in the thirties in Chittagong. Bangladesh is orientated in the British Ensign-System. This points to the connexion to Great Britain.

• Kriegsschiffe einen sogenannten "White Ensign" (Marineflagge), eine weiße Flagge oft mit durchgehendem roten Georgskreuz und mit dem Union Jack in der Oberecke,

• Handelsschiffe einen "Red Ensign" (auch "Civil Ensign" => Bürgerflagge genannt, die eigentl. Handelsflagge), eine rote Flagge mit dem Union Jack in der Oberecke, und

• Dienstschiffe einen "Blue Ensign" (Regierungsflagge => die eigentl. Staatsflagge), eine blaue Flagge mit dem Union Jack in der Oberecke führten.

• war ships fly the "White Ensign" (naval flag), a white flag often with an uninterrupted red St. George's-Cross and with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag,

• merchant ships fly a "Red Ensign" (also named "Civil Ensign" => civil flag, the real merchant flag), a red flag with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag, and

• governmental ships fly the "Blue Ensign" (flag for the use by the gouvernment => the actual state flag), a blue flag with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag.

The coat of arms of 1972 is also round, however, of singular gold. Within a circle appears above waves (they stand for the waters of the rivers Ganges and Brahmaputra) the stylized representation of a sea rose (resp. water lily). It is the the national plant. Above the blossom of the sea rose are visible four five-pointed stars, as well as leafs of the jute tree (resp. tea leafs) and one rice ear on either side (resp. Padi ear). The four stars represent the political principles of the state: nationalism, democracy, Islamic socialism, and confession to Islam. According to other sources, they stand for: nationalism, democracy, socialism and secularism.

Die Lage Bangladeschs – position of Bangladesh:

Quelle/Source: CIA World Factbook

Bangladesch – Bangladesh:

Quelle/Source: CIA World Factbook

• Fläche:
  143 988 km²

• Area:
  55 594 square miles

• Einwohner:
  127 000 000
  davon
  98% Bengalen
  2% Biharis und Assamesen

• Inhabitants:
  127 000 000
  thereof
  98% Bengali
  2% Bihari and Assamese

• Religionen:
  88% Moslems (meist Sunniten),
  10% Hindus,
  0,6% Buddhisten,
  0,3% Christen

• Religions:
  88% Muslim (mostly Sunni),
  10% Hindu,
  0,6% Buddhist,
  0,3% Christian

• Bevölkerungsdichte:
  882 Ew./km²

• Density of Population:
  2 284 inh./sq.mi.

• Hauptstadt:
  Dacca (Dhaka)
  6 500 000 Ew.

• Capital:
  Dacca (Dhaka)
  6 500 000 inh.

• Amtssprache:
  Bengali

• official Language:
  Bengali

• sonstige Sprachen:
  Urdu, Englisch

• other Languages:
  Urdu, English

• Währung:
  1 Taka (Tk) = 100 Poisha

• Currency:
  1 Taka (Tk) = 100 Poisha

• Zeitzone:
  MEZ + 5 h

• Time Zone:
  MEZ + 5 h