Bangladesh

The country calling code for Bangladesh is +880. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Bangladesh number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Bangladesh is assigned BD as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and BGD as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Bangladesh is .bd. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Bangladesh is the Bangladeshi taka, with the ISO 4217 code BDT and the symbol ৳. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Bangladesh are quoted in BDT. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Bangladesh is +06:00, currently UTC+06:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Bangladesh is Dhaka. Bangladesh sits in Asia, specifically the Southern Asia subregion. Its approximate centre point is 24.00000000, 90.00000000. Traffic in Bangladesh drives on the left. Languages recorded for Bangladesh: Bengali.

Bangladesh shares a land border with 2 countries: Myanmar and India. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.