Geo answer
We circle back to Bangladesh now for the answer to today’s Geo Quiz. And that is the city of Dhaka. It’s the capital of Bangladesh? and home to 13 million residents and almost half a million rickshaws. Authorities in Dhaka have a plan to ease the traffic. They’ve decided to carve up the city into seven zones? and have the malls and shops in each zone take a different day off. Not everyone likes the plan. Critics are predicting chaos. But many shop owners, who now work seven days a week, say the plan doesn’t sound so bad.
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