BD is the two-letter country code for Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a country in South Asia that forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of India in 1947. It is located on the Bay of Bengal and is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma. Bangladesh has a population of around 170 million people, making it the eighth-most-populous and among the most densely populated countries in the world.