Bangladesh • বাংলাদেশ [Bāṁlādesh]

15.08.1947: autonomous part of Pakistan: East Bengal • পূর্ব বঙ্গ [Pūrb Banggo] • بنگال مشرقی [Bangāl me-Sharqī]
14.10.1955: renamed East Pakistan • পূর্ব পাকিস্তান [Pūrb Pākistān] • مشرقی پاکستان [Mashriqī Pākistān]
07.10.1958: autonomy abolished
26.03.1971: independence proclaimed: People's Republic of Bangladesh • গণ প্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ [Gaṇ Prajātantrī Bāṁlādesh]
16.12.1971: capitulation of Pakistani forces
22.02.1974: independence recognized by Pakistan
17.09.1974: member of United Nations

Area: 144,000 km²
Population: 147,365,352 (2006 est.)
Capital: ঢাকা [Ḍhākā]
Currency: 1972 টাকা (ṭākā, BDT, ৳ or ৲) = 100 পয়সা [paysā]
GDP per capita: 2,100 $ (2005)
Ethnic groups: Bengali 97.7%, Chakma 0.4%, other tribal gropus 1.5%, other 0.4% (1998)
Official languages: Bengali, English

Merchant marine: 42 ships (1,000 grt or over): 341,733 grt/485,840 dwt (2005)
Coastline: 580 km
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Contiguous zone: 18 nm
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Continental shelf: up to the outer limits of the continental margin
Waterways: 8,372 km

Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription
Military expenditures: 1.8 % of GDP (2005)

President: Moḥāmmad Zillur Rahmān (12.02.2009)
Prime Minister and Minister of Armed Forces: Shekh Hāsinā Wāzed (06.01.2009)
Minister of Home Affairs: Sahara Khatun (06.01.2009)
Bangladesh Navy | Bangladesh Coast Guard | Bangladesh Rifles | Chittagong Port Authority
Major wars & other armed conflicts

03-12.1971: liberation war against Pakistan

Bangladesh Navy • বাংলাদেশ নৌ বাহিনী [Bāṁlādesh Nou Bāhinī]

11.1971: formed
14.02.1972: naval base at Chittagong handed by Indian Navy to Bangladesh
09.11.1972: Bangladesh Navy (official establishment)

www.bangladeshnavy.org

Chief of Naval Staff: RAdm. Zahir Uddīn Āhmed (29.01.2009)
Personnel: 45 (1972), 150+2850 (1976), 200+3300 (1977-79), 200+5000 (1980-81), 300+5000 (1982-83), 400+5400 (1984), 500+6500 (1985), 600+6900 (1986-90), 650+7350 (1991-95), 655+8050 (1996), 938+9974 (1997-98), 940+9960 (1999-2000), 945+9805 (2001), 1007+10275 (2002-03), 1071+10587 (2004), 1081+11658 (2005), 1177+12709 (2006)
Prefix to ships' names: BNS (Bangladesh Navy Ship)
Major bases: "BNS Issah Khan" at Chittagong (Chaṭṭagrām), "BNS Haji Mohsin" at Dhaka, "BNS Titumir" and "BNS Mongla" at Khulnā and "BNS Shahid Moassam" at Kāptāi
Minor bases: Khepupara, Hiron Point, Cox Bazar (Kaks Bāzār)
Education: Bangladesh Naval Academy "BNS Patenga" in Chittagong (since 1988)
Aircraft: 2x Beech King Air 350 MPA (bought 2006)

7th Frigate Squadron Chittagong 3 BNS Umar Farooq, BNS Abu Bakr, BNS Osman
9th Minesweeper Squadron ... 5 BNS Sagar, 4x River
11th Riverine Patrol Squadron Mongla 4 4x Pabna
21st Patrol Squadron ... 5 2x Meghna, 2x Kraljevica, BNS Bishkhali
31st Patrol Squadron ... 2 2x Ford
51st Auxiliary Squadron ... 5 BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin, BNS Shahayak, BNS Shah Jalal, BNS Khan Jahan Ali, BNS Imam Ghazzali
58th Auxiliary Squadron ... 7 6x Yùqīng, BNS Agradoot
61st Patrol Squadron Chittagong 2 2x Shanghai II
71st Patrol Squadron ... 4 BNS Barkat, BNS Salam, 2x Island
72nd Auxiliary Squadron ... 4 4x tugs
81st Escort Squadron Chittagong 11 2x Hǎinán, 4x Huángfēng, 5x Hùdōng
82nd Torpedo Squadron ... 8 4x Húchuān, 4x P-4
90th Amphibious Squadron ... 3 BNS Shah Amanat, 2x LCU-1466
91st Patrol Squadron ... 4 BNS Madhumati, 3x Island
101th Patrol Squadron Chittagong 4 4x Sea Dolphin

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Presidents [Rāṣṭrapati]:
10.04.1971-12.01.1972 Shekh Mujibur Rahmān "Banggabandhu" (1920-1975)
 17.04.1971-09.01.1972 acting: Soyid Nazrul Islām (1925-1975)
12.01.1972-24.12.1973 Ābu Sāīd Choudhurī (1921-1987)
24.12.1973-24.01.1974 acting: Mohāmmad Mohāmmadullāh (1921-1999)
24.01.1974-25.01.1975 Mohāmmad Mohāmmadullāh
25.01.1975-15.08.1975 Shekh Mujibur Rahmān
15.08.1975-06.11.1975 Khandakār Moshtāk Āhmed (1918-1996)
06.11.1975-21.04.1977 Ābu Sādāt Mohāmmad Sāyem (1916-1997)
21.04.1977-30.05.1981 Lt.Gen. Ziyā-ur Rahmān (1936-1981)
30.05.1981-20.11.1981 acting: Ābdus Sāttār (1906-1985)
20.11.1981-24.03.1982 Ābdus Sāttār
24.03.1982-27.03.1982 Gen. Husein Mohāmmad Ershād (1930-)
27.03.1982-11.12.1983 Ābul Fazal Mohāmmad Āhsānuddin Choudhurī (1915-2001)
11.12.1983-06.12.1990 Gen. Husein Mohāmmad Ershād
06.12.1990-10.10.1991 acting: Shahābuddin Āhmed (1930-)
10.10.1991-09.10.1996 Ābdur Rahmān Bishbās (1926-)
09.10.1996-14.11.2001 Shahābuddin Āhmed (1930-)
14.11.2001-21.06.2002 E.Q.M. Badruddozā Choudhurī (1930-)
21.06.2002-06.09.2002 acting: Jamīruddin Sarkār (1931-)
06.09.2002-12.02.2009Iyājuddīn Āhmed (1931-)
12.02.2009- Mohāmmad Zillur Rahmān (1929-)

Prime ministers [Pradhānamantrī]:
11.04.1971-13.01.1972 Tājuddin Āhmed (1925-1975)
13.01.1972-26.01.1975 Shekh Mujibur Rahmān
26.01.1975-15.08.1975 Mohāmmad Mansur Ālī (1919-1975)
Chief martial law administrators:
07.11.1975-29.11.1976 Ābu Sādāt Mohāmmad Sāyem
29.11.1976-06.04.1979 Lt.Gen. Ziyā-ur Rahmān
Senior minister:
26.06.1978-12.03.1979 Mashiur Rahmān (1924-1979)
Prime minister:
15.04.1979-24.03.1982 Shāh Āzizur Rahmān (1925-1988)
Chief martial law administrator:
24.03.1982-30.03.1984 Gen. Husein Mohāmmad Ershād
Prime ministers:
30.03.1984-09.07.1986 Ātāur Rahmān Khān (1907-1991)
09.07.1986-27.03.1988 Mizānur Rahmān Choudhurī (1928-2006)
27.03.1988-12.08.1989 Moudud Āhmed (1940-)
12.08.1989-06.12.1990 Kāzī Zāfar Āhmed (1940-)
06.12.1990-20.03.1991 vacant
20.03.1991-03.03.1996 Khāledā Ziyā (1945-)
Chief adviser:
03.03.1996-23.06.1996 Mohāmmad Hābibur Rahmān (1930-)
Prime minister:
23.06.1996-15.07.2001 Shekh Hāsinā Wāzed (1947-)
Chief adviser:
15.07.2001-10.10.2001 Latifur Rahmān (1936-)
Prime minister:
10.10.2001-29.10.2006 Khāledā Ziyā
Chief advisers:
29.10.2006-11.01.2007 Iyājuddīn Āhmed
12.01.2007-06.01.2009 Fakhruddīn Āhmed (1940-)
Prime minister:
06.01.2009- Shekh Hāsinā Wāzed

Chiefs of Naval Staff:
10.1971-12.1971 Lt. Ghazi Mohāmmad Rahmatullāh
12.1971-01.1972 Cmdr. M.N. Sumanta
03.1972-06.11.1975 Cmdr. Nurul Huq
07.11.1975-03.11.1979 RAdm. Musharraf Husein Khān
04.11.1979-06.08.1984 RAdm. Mahbub Ālī Khān
06.08.1984-14.08.1990 RAdm. Sultan Āhmed
15.08.1990-02.05.1991 RAdm. Amir Āhmed Mostafā
04.06.1991-03.06.1995 RAdm. Mohāmmad Mohaiminul Islām
04.06.1995-03.06.1999 RAdm. Mohāmmad Nurul Islām
04.06.1999-03.06.2002 RAdm. Ābu Taher
04.06.2002-09.01.2005 RAdm. Shāh Iqbāl Mujtaba
09.01.2005-09.02.2007 RAdm. Mohāmmad Hāsān Āli Khān
10.02.2007-28.01.2009 RAdm. Sarwar Jahan Nizam
29.01.2009- RAdm. Zahir Uddīn Āhmed

General Directors, Coast Guard:
02.1995-... Cdre. Shafiqur Rahmān
...-... Cdre. Mohāmmad Shahābuddin
...-06.2002 Cdre. Shāh Iqbāl Mujtaba
06.2002-03.2005 Cpt. Sarkār Mohāmmad Humayun Kabir
03.2005-02.2007 RAdm. Sarwar Jahan Nizam
02.2007-01.2008 Cdre. Mohāmmad Ābul Kālām Āzād
01.2008- Cdre. Moqsumul Kader

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