Official Languages

Bengali

Languages spoken here

Bengali (secondary) · Garo (secondary) · Manipuri (secondary) · Sindhi (secondary) · Urdu (secondary) · Urdu (Latin translit.) (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Bangladesh

Peoples

Largest first.

PeoplePopulationLanguageReligion
Bengali Muslim134880000 BengaliIslam
Sylheti (Muslim traditions)12476000 SylhetiIslam
Namassej (Hindu traditions)2839000 BengaliHinduism
Namassej Chandel2189000 BengaliHinduism
Bengali Muslim Sayyid1863000 BengaliIslam
Kayastha (Hindu traditions)1780000 BengaliHinduism
Rajbansi (Hindu traditions)1618000 BengaliHinduism
Jola1386000 BengaliIslam
Bihari (Muslim traditions)965000 UrduIslam
Rohingya906000 RohingyaIslam
Deaf825000 West Bengal Sign LanguageUnknown
Mahishya752000 BengaliHinduism
Jogi (Hindu traditions)645000 BengaliHinduism
Sunri (Hindu traditions)619000 BengaliHinduism
Hajam574000 BengaliIslam
Shaikh547000 BengaliIslam
Chakma539000 ChakmaBuddhism
Kaibartta unspecified511000 BengaliHinduism
Brahmin unspecified388000 BengaliHinduism
Christian308000 BengaliChristianity
Kayastha Karan261000 BengaliHinduism
Kaibartta Jalia256000 BengaliHinduism
Sunri Sadhubanik255000 BengaliHinduism
Kumhar, Kusavar (Hindu traditions)250000 BengaliHinduism
Marma (Magh)247000 MarmaBuddhism
Mochi (Hindu traditions)242000 BengaliHinduism
Jhalo Malo224000 BengaliHinduism
Santal (Sawntal)214000 BengaliHinduism
Tamboli (Hindu traditions)199000 BengaliHinduism
Bairagi (Hindu traditions)198000 BengaliHinduism
Yadav (Hindu traditions)197000 BengaliHinduism
Lohar (Hindu traditions)195000 BengaliHinduism
Sutradhar (Hindu traditions)192000 BengaliHinduism
Mali (Hindu traditions)180000 SylhetiHinduism
Kapali173000 BengaliHinduism
Bengali Muslim Pashtun, Pathan172000 BengaliIslam
Teli (Hindu traditions)159000 BengaliHinduism
Dhobi (Hindu traditions)156000 BengaliHinduism
Maimal154000 SylhetiIslam
Tipera151000 Kok BorokHinduism
Patni (Hindu traditions)144000 SylhetiHinduism
Baidya (Hindu traditions)133000 BengaliHinduism
Tamboli (Muslim traditions)133000 BengaliIslam
Kalu130000 BengaliIslam
Kuki Chin129000 ChittagonianBuddhism
Mandala (Muslim traditions)122000 BengaliIslam
Tanti (Hindu traditions)114000 BengaliHinduism
Yadav Sadgope113000 BengaliHinduism
Oraon, Kurux111000 KuruxEthnic Religions
Paliya105000 BengaliHinduism

Languages

38 languages recorded here.

Bengali
Bishnupuriya
Burmese
Chak
Chakma
Chin, Asho
Chin, Bawm
Chin, Hakha
Chin, Khumi
Chin, Uppu
Chittagonian
Dimasa
Garo
Gondi, Northern
Hajong
Koch
Kok Borok
Kurux
Kuvi
Mahali
Marma
Meitei
Mru
Mundari
Pangkhua
Pnar
Rakhine
Riang
Rohingya
Sadri, Oraon
Sindhi
Sylheti
Tangchangya
Tiwa
Urdu
Usoi
War-Jaintia
West Bengal Sign Language

All catalogue fields

162 fields recorded
rog3
BG
iso3
BGD
iso2
BD
ctry
Bangladesh
poplpeoples
176513000
cntpeoples
277
cntpeopleslr
255
poplpeopleslr
174587000
jpscalectry
1
rol3officiallanguage
ben
officiallang
Bengali
rlg3primary
6
religionprimary
Islam
percentchristianity
0.50362735949474
c_10_40window
Y
rog2
ASI
continent
Asia
regioncode
4
regionname
Asia, South
workersneeded
3634
harvest_rog3
BG
harvest_iso3
BGD
harvest_iso2
BD
harvest_owcountrycode
BANG
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode
BD
harvest_countrynumber
17
harvest_ctry
Bangladesh
harvest_ctryshort
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynamechinese
孟加拉国
harvest_countrynamechineseshort
孟加拉国
harvest_countrynamedutch
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynamefrench
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynamegerman
Bangladesch
harvest_countrynamegermanshort
Bangladesch
harvest_countrynamehindi
बांग्लादेश
harvest_countrynameindonesian
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynameitalian
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynameitalianshort
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynamekorean
방글라데시
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort
방글라데시
harvest_countrynamenorwegian
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynameportuguese
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynamerussian
Бангладеш
harvest_countrynamerussianshort
Бангладеш
harvest_countrynamespanish
Bangladés
harvest_countrynamespanishshort
Bangladés
harvest_countrynamevietnamese
Bangladesh
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort
Bangladesh
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix
de
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix
in
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix
di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix
-
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix
i
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix
em
harvest_russianconcatenationprefix
B
harvest_spanishconcatenationprefix
en
harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix
harvest_ethnologuemapexists
Y
harvest_southasia
Y
harvest_rog2
ASI
harvest_regioncode2414
18
harvest_regioncode
4
harvest_unsr
034
harvest_worldabc
A
harvest_capital
Dhaka
harvest_population
175687000
harvest_populationsource
UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo
https://prayercast.com/bangladesh.html
harvest_prayercastvimeourl
39775792
harvest_waldnerguide
prayer-guide-bg.pdf
harvest_unmap
https://un.org/geospatial/content/bangladesh
harvest_persecutionrankingod
33
harvest_persecutionrankingodlink
https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/bangladesh
harvest_jpscale
1
harvest_c_10_40window
Y
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal
Y
harvest_biblerestrictionsrank
47
harvest_bibleshortagerank
34
harvest_bibleaccessurl
https://www.bibleaccesslist.org/profiles/BD_2025_profile.pdf
harvest_owpctevang
0.4
harvest_owpctcharismatic
0.20596544
harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate
3.5999999
harvest_owcountrypage
bangladesh
harvest_literacyrate
74
harvest_literacysource
Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized
37
harvest_rol3officiallanguage
ben
harvest_rol3secondarylanguage
eng
harvest_rlg3primary
6
harvest_pctanimist
0.49
harvest_pctbahai
0.01
harvest_pctbuddhism
0.6
harvest_pctchinese
0
harvest_pcthindu
9.1
harvest_pctislam
89.01000000000001
harvest_pctsikh
0.02
harvest_pctjudaism
0
harvest_pctnonreligious
0.11
harvest_pctother
0
harvest_pctchristian
0.66
harvest_pctchristianprotestant
0.21
harvest_pctchristianindependent
0.26
harvest_pctchristiananglican
0
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic
0.19
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic
0
harvest_pctchristianmarginal
0
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated
0
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing
0
harvest_pctchristianother
0
harvest_pctchristianextra
0
harvest_rop1
A012
harvest_hdiyear
2015
harvest_hdivalue
0.579
harvest_hdirank
139
harvest_internetusers
18.2
harvest_flashmapzoom
1538
harvest_flashmapzoomx
-1056
harvest_flashmapzoomy
-610
harvest_googlemapzoom
7
harvest_googlemaplat
24
harvest_googlemaplng
90
harvest_ctrylatitude
23.684994
harvest_ctrylongitude
90.356331
harvest_securitylevel
2
harvest_ethnolinguisticmap
http://www.sdnpbd.org/sdi/international_days/Indigenous-people/2004/indigenous_people_bd/spatial_distribution.htm
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom
https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/bangladesh/
harvest_provincesdisplayable
Y
harvest_adm1label
Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode
202
harvest_poplgrowthrate
1.176716121072242
harvest_v59country
Y
harvest_godreportsurl
http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=bd&joshua=bg
harvest_datareportalurl
https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-bangladesh
harvest_internetusage
15
harvest_internetusagesourceyear
2017
harvest_pray1040url
https://pray1040.com/pray-for-bangladesh/
harvest_voiceofmartyrsurl
https://www.persecution.com/globalprayerguide/bangladesh/
harvest_biblesocietyurl
http://dev.bsbangladesh.org/
harvest_areasquaremiles
55598
harvest_areasquarekilometers
143998
harvest_populationpersquaremile
2405
harvest_countryphonecode
880
harvest_wincountryprofile
http://win1040.com/page.php?id=512
harvest_owpctchristian1986
0.38
harvest_owpctevangelical1986
0.1
harvest_owpctchristian1993
0.4
harvest_owpctevangelical1993
0.1
harvest_owpctchristian2001
0.72
harvest_owpctevangelical2001
0.4
harvest_stonyground
Y
harvest_religiondatayear
2010
harvest_internetctrycode
.bd
harvest_worldfactbookurl
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/bangladesh
harvest_source
pjj
harvest_editname
BM
harvest_editdate
09/12/02 00:00:00