Bangladesh is located in South Asia and lies between India and Myanmar and sits on the Bay of Bengal. Locals are known as Bangladeshis, and the population is approximately 156 million.
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.
Islam, the state religion, is the faith of 88 percent of the population, almost all of whom adhere to the Sunni branch. Hindus make up most of the remainder, and the country has small communities of Buddhists, Christians, and animists.