Bangladesh (Russia) fact of the day

The landmass of Bangladesh is one-118th the size of Russia, but its population exceeds Russia’s by more than 25 million.

Most of the article (NYT) is about the unbearably bad traffic in Dhaka.  Every year 400,000 new people arrive in Dhaka, the city has only 60 traffic lights, and only 7 percent of the surface is covered with roads (Paris say would be about 30 percent).

The piece, by Jody Rosen, is interesting throughout.

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