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Bangladesh Bangladesh arboretum

National Botanical Garden

Shahnoor Habib Munmun · CC BY-SA 3.0

12% trees around it and 198 species recorded.

30Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km12%
  • wild within 10 km36%
  • species recorded198

The forest around

12% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 44%Grassland 0%Water 7%Bare ground 0%Cropland 7%Built-up 41%Trees 8%Grassland 3%Wetland 3%Water 5%Bare ground 1%Cropland 28%Built-up 53%Trees 23%Grassland 8%Wetland 1%Water 6%Bare ground 3%Cropland 25%Built-up 33%Trees 26%Grassland 5%Wetland 0%Water 3%Bare ground 2%Cropland 20%Built-up 44%12%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km44%
  • 1–3 km8%
  • 3–6 km23%
  • 6–10 km26%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees8%
  • Grassland3%
  • Wetland3%
  • Water5%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland28%
  • Built-up53%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

198 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Pontederia crassipes
Pontederia crassipesPontederia crassipes3 recordsDataBase Center for Life Science (DBCLS) · CC BY 4.0
Sacred lotus
Sacred lotusNelumbo nucifera3 recordsT.Voekler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Water Lettuce
Water LettucePistia stratiotes2 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garden croton
Garden crotonCodiaeum variegatum2 recordsLouise Wolff -- darina 23:22, 6 May 2005 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Peregrina
PeregrinaJatropha integerrima2 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
Flamevine
FlamevinePyrostegia venusta2 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
Nandi Flame
Nandi FlameSpathodea campanulata2 recordsSteven Haw · CC BY 2.0
False heather
False heatherCuphea hyssopifolia2 recordsMelburnian · CC BY 2.5
Kamala tree
Kamala treeMallotus philippensis2 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Bittervine
BittervineMikania micrantha2 recordsVengolis · CC BY 4.0
Nymphaea rubraNymphaea rubra2 records

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

30out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 12%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 36%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 198Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from December to January.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan24°11°10 mm
  2. Feb29°14°21 mm
  3. Mar34°20°54 mm
  4. Apr36°24°176 mm
  5. May34°25°310 mm
  6. Jun32°26°387 mm
  7. Jul31°26°404 mm
  8. Aug31°26°327 mm
  9. Sep30°25°271 mm
  10. Oct30°23°176 mm
  11. Nov28°18°31 mm
  12. Dec25°13°16 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

National Botanical Garden.

Plant conservation centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh

National Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Bangladesh.

Seen from space, 12% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 36% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

198 species have been recorded around it: 11 plants, 1 fungi, 183 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Pontederia crassipes, Sacred lotus and Water Lettuce.

The best time to walk is from December to January.

Botanical Garden Dhaka Bangladesh 13
Shahnoor Habib Munmun · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • UN Transit Campcampsite · 6.9 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Grand Prince Hotelplace to stay · 1.7 km · 371 within 10 km
  • Mirpur Model Thananearest town · 1.4 km in a straight line
  • Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (DAC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire at CCU airport (Kolkata)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

National Botanical Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 2marked trails within 5 km
  • 12named and notable trees within 6 kmIndoor Games Room (Girls), Raj koroi tree, Polash flower tree and 9 more
  • 4shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmBotanical Eastern Lake View and 5 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmবোটানিক্যাল গার্ডেন জামে মসজিদ, Neha Thai Spa
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmUN Transit Camp, Hussain Group of Industries, Aman Group, Warehouse
  • 371places to stay within 10 kmGrand Prince Hotel, Sarina Hotel, হোটেল লেক ক্যাসেল and 368 more
  • 326restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around National Botanical Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Novo Theatre, DhakaBortle 9 · 6.8 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Shitalakshya River110 kmTurag River

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Gardenbanla-50000x22778
STanimHossen · CC0
Orchid House at Bangladesh National Botanical Garden Mirpur
Kawsar Ahammad · CC BY-SA 3.0
Affected Tree after Thunderstorm in National Botanical Garden of bangladesh
AbdullahMuhammadMamun · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

National Botanical Garden

Bangladesh

  • 30Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 36%Wild
  • 198Species

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden

India · 252 km

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 33%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 298Species

See the guide

The Great Banyan

India · 252 km

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 32%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 298Species

See the guide

Ratargul Swamp Forest

Bangladesh · 209 km

  • 23Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 47%Wild
  • 24Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3348108) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species22,548 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesDarkskyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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