Marine Places
Cox’s Bazar
Cox’s Bazar lies on a northeastern stretch of the Bay of Bengal and is the second-longest unbroken natural beach in the world—Ninety Mile Beach in Australia is the longest. It fronts a range of dunes and, at its southern end, a spit of land. The dunes, spit, and beach have been built up over hundreds of years through a combination of wave action and deposition of sediment from the Bay of Bengal. This is a gently sloping beach that offers safe swimming and surfing and is also popular among collectors of conch shells.
zoom image
- Indian Ocean North
- Type Dissipative coastal plain beach
- Composition Yellow sand
- Length 75 miles (120 km)
- Location South of Chittagong, southeastern Bangladesh
zoom image
