ABSTRACT
Planning for economic development has become a discipline-by itself. It started as the brainchild of the economists but with growing environmental problems, geographers are being increasingly consulted. Economic development after all deals with the modification of human and physical resources, which are the concern of the geographer. The task of planning for the economic development of Bangladesh is very formidable. It is a small country with an exceedingly high population and very few natural resources. The one great resource is the human population itself. The development planners are often so involved with the nuts and bolts' of preparing projects and progress that they lose sight of the end-product. The immediate orientation of the economy must perforce be based on geographical realities. It is only later, when considerable use has been made of the given environment, that Bangladesh will be ready to radically alter the potential of its human and physical geography.
