Dhaka

Bangladesh

Dhaka, formerly spelled as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. With an estimated population of 36.6 million, Dhaka is the second largest city by population in the world, and is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world. Dhaka is an important cultural, economic, and scientific hub of Eastern South Asia. Dhaka ranks fourth in South Asia and 55th in the world in terms of GDP.

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Country: Bangladesh
Population: 12,797,394
Latitude: 23.73° N
Longitude: 90.41° E

Which way is Dhaka from…

From Paris, Dhaka lies at 75° to the east, 7,909 km as the crow flies.

Paris	75° east	7,909 km
London	74° east	8,002 km
New York	16° north	12,671 km
Madrid	69° east	8,654 km
Rome	79° east	7,306 km
Montreal	16° north	12,148 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	39° north-east	6,239 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Flat map and compass disagree by 37° between London and Dhaka: the map would aim at 112°, south of east, the compass at 74°, north of east, for 8,002 km. From New York it is even more striking: the compass says 16°, north, because the shortest route flies over Greenland, the Arctic and Siberia, whereas the map would say 97°. To place Bangladesh’s capital, remember it lies on the same latitude as Havana.