Rivers of Bangladesh

   There are over 300 hundred rivers in Bangladesh. Having so many rivers helps all the flooding, monsoons, and cyclones that take effect there.  It is averaged that at least two big floods happen in Bangladesh every year.  The flood season is July to September(The Bangladeshi months of Borsha, Ashar, and Shrabon to Sharad, Bhadro, and Ashshin).

   Kaptai Lake is one of the world's largest man-made lakes.  It is about 300 square miles, but can reach to 400 square miles in the flood season.  The river was made when the construction of the Karnaphuli hydroelectric(electricity made from energy made from falling water) plant took place during the late 1950s and early 1960s.  The largest man-made lake is lake Kariba.

Cyclones- "a large-scale, atmospheric wind-and-pressure system characterized by low pressure at its center and by circular wind motion, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere"

Monsoons-  "the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.

"2. (in India and nearby lands) the season during which the southwest monsoon blows, commonly marked by heavy rains; rainy season."