A vast majority (98 percent) of the people of Bangladesh are Bengalis and they speak the Bengali language. Minorities include Biharis numbering 250,000 and other tribes numbering about a million, with the Chakma being most numerous in number.
Rivers are the most important geographical features in Bangladesh, and it is the rivers that created the vast alluvial delta.
Highest allocations for education in the national budgets during the nineties show that the government has attached topmost priority to human resource development though education.