A bit of a steep learning curve here as it involves trying to map a country without many familiar features I can pin to it.
Questions
Sharing its name with a small Indian health resort town in the state of Jharkand, which tract of upland area in central Bangladesh lies to the north of Dhaka and has been heavily deforested? The remaining forest is part of a National Park that goes by the same name.
MADHUPUR
Sanskrit for ‘lotus flower’, what is the name of the main distributary of the Ganges, flowing until it meets the Meghna river near the Bay of Bengal? The large city of Rajshahi can be found on its banks.
PADMA
Included on the Ramsar wetland list is Tanguar, a type of what kind of wetland ecosystem with a short Bengali name as indicated by the site’s full two-word title? It can be described as a bowl-shaped depression.
HAOR
To highlight the danger of list learning, you vould easily be outfoxed by the highest peak of Bangladesh. What peak is considered to be the highest point in the country? Keokradong previously claimed this title, and Tazing Dong is officially claimed to be the highest, though there is research that claims this can’t possibly be the case.
SAKA HAPHONG
Which least populous of Bangladesh’s eight administrative divisions can be found on the Bay of Bengal, with its namesake in the Padma river delta once being called the ‘Venice of the east’?
BARISAL
Lying east of the Barisal division, what is the official name of Chittagong and its namesake division, being part of the name of the Challengers team that participate in cricket’s Bangladesh Premier League?
CHATTOGRAM
Its namesake capital being the third largest city in Bangladesh, which division is the westernmost of the three divisions in Bangladesh that border the Bay of Bengal? The Sundarbans can be found here.
KHULNA
Only formed in 2010, which northernmost division of Bangladesh shares its name with a fruit that is sometimes called the mandarin lime and is a hybrid between a mandarin orange and a citron?
RANGPUR
The most populous of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh, what region covers the centre of the country and borders each other one except the northernmost, Rangpur?
DHAKA
Located in the north, which capital of a namesake division is named for an ethnic Bengal Muslim ruler and is known as a financial centre and educational hub? Associated with the Brahmaputra river, it is known for its embroidered quilts called nakshi kantha.
MYMENSINGH
Home to the Bangladesh Premier League cricket team called the Kings and famous for its silk, which city and division in the west of Bangladesh is home to the Mango roundabout?
RAJSHAHI
Its namesake capital being known for its tea, which division in the north-east is also considered to be the spiritual capital of the country as it is the resting place of Shah Jalal, a Sufi saint who spread islam in the area?
SYLHET
Also known as the Oriental, the Indomalayan is one of eight biogeographic regions that go by what word? Subdivided into bioregions, then ecoregions, other examples include the Palearctic and Antarctic.
REALM
Bangladesh’s only coral reef surrounds which island in the Bay of Bengal, named for a saint and lying a short distance south of the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf peninsula in Chittagong? The southernmost point of the country is situated here.
ST. MARTIN’S ISLAND
Coming from a Sanskrit word meaning ‘spotted’ from which cheetah is also derived, what is a type of deer native to the Indian sub-continent?
CHITAL
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