A country with 70% of land being floodplains less than 6m above sea level.
- Bangladesh could lose 20% of its land, displacing up to 40 million people.
- Rising sea level threatens to reduce supplies of food and fresh drinking water and it can damage agricultural land in a country where 65% of the rapidly growing population are subsistance farmers.
- Bangladesh is a multiple hazard zone (river floods, coastal floods, storm surges, typhoons) and climate change is likely to make things worse.
- Solutions are very complex as the coast is too long to fully defend espiecally for an LEDC.
> A similar situation exists in the Nile delta in Egypt, where local subsidence exacerbates the impact of the rising sea level.
> A 1m rise in sea level could affect 15% of the countries habitable land which accounts for 7 million people.
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