Services:
- Percentage of workforce in services: 40%
- Main types of services: Tourism, Financial services, & Retail
- Early Settlement:
- The settlements in Bangladesh are clustered.
Urban Patterns:
- # and % of people living in urban areas: 57,952,506.5 = 34.3%
- Largest cities: For Bangladesh the rank rule would not be applicable. The best classification is Bangladesh containing a primate city, its capital city Dhaka. This city is unproportionately large than the next two biggest countries.
- Dhaka: 14,399,000
- Chittagong: 5,239,000
- Khulna: 1,781,000
- Model of Urban Development: The best way to classify Bangladesh's urban model is to look at its most populous city, Dhaka. The model that represent the urbanization of Bangladesh is the McGee Model. If you look at the growth and the expansion of resources it's hearth is a port that is located above the downtown area that supplies the rest of the country.
- Distribution of social classes:
- Urban issues/problems:
- Over population hinders the availability of resources and space.
- Urban sprawl is also another issue that is prevalent in Bangladesh, considering it is one of the most dense cities. The unplanned urbanization leads to being unorganized and having spacial issues.
- Over population hinders the availability of resources and space.