Interactive Map: Flooding in Bangladesh, July 2020

According to the UN, about 30 million Bangladeshis were exposed or living close to flooded areas during July 2020. Flood areas are shown in blue; districts are shaded red by population potentially exposed. Data: Unitar / Unosat and NOAA. (Areas have been simplified.) Read the full article: "Future Brahmaputra River Floods as Climate Warms May Be Underestimated, Study Says".

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Sources: Esri, DeLorme, HERE, TomTom, Intermap, increment P Corp., GEBCO, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, IGN, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), swisstopo, MapmyIndia, and the GIS User Community