More than 19.5 million people live within 300 kilometers — about 186 miles.
Source: World Population Review
That's 23,234 people per square kilometer, which is just over half a square mile.
Source: World Population Review
Rickshaws outnumber cars in Dhaka and are an important source of income and transportation for the poor.
Source: Reuters
In 2011, there were an estimated 1 million tricycle rickshaws in Dhaka and nearly half of all road accidents involve them, reported Reuters.
Source: Reuters
There are no seats inside the trains and many commuters risk hanging off the side or climb 12 feet to sit on the roof of the train.
Source: Daily Mail
Documentarian Yousef Tushar spent a day at a Dhaka train station and said around 2,000 men, women, and children climb onto a train's roof at a time, reported the Daily Mail.
Source: Daily Mail
Some people use ladders to get onto the trains, some climb using the windows as leverage, and some get hoisted up by other riders.
Source: Reuters
The garment industry was a lifeline in Bangladesh that once employed an estimated 10 million locals.
Source: The World Bank, Reuters
But hundreds of small clothing factories have closed or cut workers after an elimination of global textile quotas in 2005.
Source: The World Bank, Reuters
In 2013, a garment factory collapsed, killing hundreds of workers. Mourners gathered for a mass burial in Dhaka.
Source: Reuters
After garments, shrimp is is the second largest export in the country, earning about $400 million a year and constituting 8% of Bangladesh's total exports.
Source: Reuters
Locals rely on the Buriganga river, which is heavily polluted with human and factory waste.
Source: Reuters
People in the slums of Dhaka will create cakes of cow dung to use as a source of fuel for cooking, or to sell to markets.
Source: Reuters
Local children will collect things to sell at the markets, like hyacinth flowers from a swamp ...
Source: Reuters
Vendors will pull up in boats along the Buriganga river to wait on the riverbank for potential buyers of goods like jackfruits.
Source: Reuters
But that's for garment workers, not for people scraping by without regular employment.
Source: Reuters
