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Natural coastal land expansion offers hope to low-lying Bangladesh

Kabir Uddin, Rajesh Bahadur Thapa & Kundan Shrestha

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Coastal land expansion in northern Bay of Bengal (1989–2018): Dark green represents regained land area that is unchanged, light green shows gradual reformation into a new island area, and pink represents land area lost into waterbodies. The net gain in land for Bangladesh during this period was around 1.15% (590 km2).

Coastal land expansion in northern Bay of Bengal (1989–2018): Dark green represents regained land area that is unchanged, light green shows gradual reformation into a new island area, and pink represents land area lost into waterbodies. The net gain in land for Bangladesh during this period was around 1.15% (590 km2).

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