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Sonadia Island is a small island of about , offshore of the Cox's Bazar coast in Chittagong Division,
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Islands of Bangladesh {{island-stub
Sonadia Island is a small island of about , offshore of the Cox's Bazar coast in Chittagong Division, Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
. Sonadia is located at Kutubjom Union in Maheshkhali Upazila, 15 km north-west of Cox's Bazar District Headquarters. It is located at latitude 21.28˝-21.33˝ and longitude 91.50˝-91.56˝. Sonadia Maheshkhali is separated from the main island by a canal.
Transport
Sonadia is seen as a potential deepwater port lying on theBay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line betwee ...
that could serve the landlocked parts of India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
, Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
and China.
Rail connections have yet to be built, and the question of gauge has yet to be resolved as the following gauges are in use or possible:
- Bangladesh, India
- Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Thailand, etc.
- China
See also
* Transport in Bangladesh *List of islands of Bangladesh
This is a list of Islands of Bangladesh.
The islands of Bangladesh are scattered along the Bay of Bengal and the river mouth of the Padma.
The word "Char" is used in many of the names and refers to floodplain sediment islands in the Ganges De ...
References
External links
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