The countries of Nepal and Bangladesh
Often get overlooked when we talk about South Asia
However, these are two fascinating and remarkable countries that have a truly unique culture
That's really worth exploring. Let's now take an inside. Look at the differences between
Bangladesh and Nepal. Hey everyone. Thank you so much for watching
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Okay. Now let's start off with the differences between these two amazing countries. First up
I'm gonna look at Bangladesh the name Bangladesh means the country of
Bengal the British partition of India in 1947
resulted in the creation of East Pakistan in the Muslim majority
Eastern Area Bengal with India's support the Awami League fought for autonomy
And they want independence for Bangladesh in the year 1971 and one interesting thing to know about Bangladesh is more than half of its population
Is composed of farmers the capital city?
And also the largest city of Bangladesh is Dhaka at the time of filming this episode
The population is an estimated one hundred and sixty five point seven million people which leaves Bangladesh is
Population density at one thousand one hundred and fifteen point six two square kilometers
Now the total land area of Bangladesh is 147 thousand five hundred and seventy square kilometres
Islam is the largest religion in Bangladesh and the major religion starting from the largest to the smallest percentage like this
90% as I mentioned is
Muslim and now nine point five percent of the population of Bangladesh is Hindu
0.6% are Buddhists and 0.4% are Christians now moving over into Nepal. Now Nepal is a
Beautiful country. It's located between China and India and although it's small in size and
Economy Nepal is rich in terms of culture religious ethnic and natural diversity
Nepal is also really known for it being the land that has the highest mountain in the world Mount
Everest and also the birthplace of Lord Buddha for those of you who follow Buddhism or
familiar with that religion and when you take a look at the Nepal flag
You notice that it's completely different from any other flag that you'll ever see for another country
so the national flag of Nepal is the only
National flag that is not triangular or squared in its shape
It's made up of two triangles now
the population of Nepal is 29 point three million people and that leads its population density at
201 point to eight people per square kilometer and it's total land area is
147 thousand one hundred eighty one square kilometers
The largest population in Nepal is Hinduism and that sits at eighty one point three four percent of its total population
And then that's followed by Buddhism
which is nine point zero four percent Islam comes next at four point three nine percent ki raat follows Islam at
3.04 percent and finally, there's Christianity at one point four one percent when we look at Bangladesh is flag
we see that the red disc on the flag is
Offset slightly towards the left now the red circle or disc whatever want to call
it represents the Sun that rises over Bengal and it also represents the blood of those who lost their lives fighting for the independence of
Bangladesh the green on the flag symbolizes the green luscious
Nepal is also the oldest country in South Asia and it was founded in the year
1768 and Nepal doesn't actually have an
Independence day because it never has been conquered. The original founding date of Nepal was September 25th
1768 however in the Year 1923
Britain declared its independence and this is because the country of Nepal was ruled by the Rana family
Which supported the British prime minister so, you know Brits gotta put their claim somehow in there
Although they never really conquered Nepal. But anyways, just moving on now
So the currency in Bangladesh is the taka and one Bangladeshi talk up equals
0.01 two US dollars approximately the currency used in Nepal
Is it Nepalese rupee and one Nepalese rupee equals zero point zero zero nine seven
US dollars now a question I had was what were the national animals of these two countries?
So I looked it up and I found that the Royal Bengal tiger is the national animal of Bangladesh
Which kind of makes sense because Bengal Bangladesh, you know from the same root word
Now when I looked at Nepal, I saw that you know, because cows are very sacred to Hindus
It's been declared as the national animal of Nepal which of course makes sense because Hinduism is the largest religion there now
I'm going to take a closer look into the market and the economy of these G countries
So the market-based economy of Bangladesh is the 44th largest in the entire world
In nominal terms that is and it's the 30 second largest by purchasing power parity now according to the IMF
Bangladesh's economy was the second fastest growing major economy in the year 2016 and its growth rate was 7.1 percent
Bangladesh is GDP based on this purchasing power?
Parity is eight hundred and twenty nine point two seven billion dollars and its gdp per capita is four thousand nine hundred and seventy eight
Thousand dollars the top exports of Bangladesh are non knit men's suits also their net tea shirts as well as knit
Sweaters and now they're top imports are heavy pure woven cotton
refined petroleum and light pure woven cotton now in comparison
Nepal is a hundred and fiftieth largest export economy in the world and back in the year 2015 Nepal exported
909 million dollars worth and that was really got the ranking for it being one hundred and fifty at largest
Export economy in the entire world and it imported six point six one billion dollars making it the hundred and fourteen
largest importer in the world resulting in a negative trade balance of
5.7 billion dollars now Nepal is among the poorest and the least developed countries in the world
although saying that it doesn't take away from its uniqueness and its richness of
Culture and and the people and and the love in the environment. We're just talking poor in the sense of dollars
So if you're from Nepal or watching this it's not meant to be an insult at all
Nepal's total GDP is twenty one point two billion dollars and its GDP per capita is two point four six
Thousand dollars its top exports are flavored water
Knotted carpets and non retail synthetic staple fiber yarn, the top imports of Nepal are refined petroleum
silver as well as planes helicopters and
Spacecrafts now taking a look at the living expenses when we compare the cost of living and Bangladesh compared to Nepal
we see that food is
5% more expensive
Housing is 12% more clothing is 36% less and the cost of transportation is
2% less expensive personal care costs are
9% less expensive and the cost of entertainment is
68% more so when we look at the total cost of living when we average everything out the cost of living in Bangladesh is
10% more
expensive than in Nepal Bangladesh is national debt sits at sixty nine point five eight billion dollars and it has a debt per citizen of
four hundred and thirty five dollars per person
So over 30% of Bangladesh's population live below the poverty line
however, the economy and standards of living have been improving over recent years with a per capita income of just about
1300 u.s. Dollars per year. Now Nepal's national debt is five point eight billion dollars u.s
And his debt per citizen is a hundred and ninety nine dollars
So you see Nepal is one of the few countries in the world which has enough room to borrow more money to finance development
Works and achieve higher economic growth rates, okay
So now we got all those numbers and digits out of the way
I want to take a look at the differences between their cinema
The cinema of Bangladesh is in the Bengali language and that film industry is based in Dhaka Bangladesh
Now the film industry in Bangladesh is referred to as Dollywood. It's a combination of the words Dhaka and
Hollywood now in Nepal their cinema is pretty new. I mean the first Nepalese movie was released in the year
1964 and the languages of the film are Nepali
My Tilly and Butch poori the terms Nellie wood and kali wood are used to describe Nepal cinema
Now Nellie wood. Of course is Nepal in Hollywood combined?
And since Kathmandu is a home of the Nepali film industry the K is used when it's combined with Hollywood
So those are your differences between Bangladesh and Nepal be sure to leave all your thoughts and comments down below in the comment section
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