Girls work together An estimated 2,500 people live in the one-square-km slum district of Comilla, about 100 km from Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital.
Most notably, in a policy called "social control", families are now allowed to grow one cato (1.6 square km) of coca, with enforcement exercised by the community.
The southwestern plateau covers about 50,000 square miles (130,000 square km), one-fourth of which forms the sandy Rīgestān region.
Covering an area well in excess of 1 million square miles (2.6 million square km)—one-seventh of Russia's total area it stretches about 1,200 miles (1,900 km) from the Urals to the Yenisey and 1,500 miles (2,400 km) from the Arctic Ocean to the foothills of the Altai Mountains.
In the southeast lies the Mojave Desert, which, at more than 25,000 square miles (65,000 square km), occupies one-sixth of the land area of California.
The mountains, hills, and plains of northeastern Iraq occupy some 35,500 square miles (92,000 square km), about one-fifth of the country.
The total area of Asia, including Asian Russia (with the Caucasian isthmus) but excluding the island of New Guinea, amounts to some 17,226,200 square miles (44,614,000 square km), roughly one-third of the land surface of Earth.
They cover more than 51,000 square miles (132,000 square km), almost one-third of the country's area, and are characterized by low elevation, below 300 feet (100 metres), and poor natural drainage.
Countrywide, there is a population density of less than two people per square km, which is one of the lowest in the world (United Nations Data 2017).
