The results of the survey published in Geophysical Research Letters are very similar to this picture of the latest high tide in Chittagong. According to the study, the second-largest city in Bangladesh lost 2.39 centimeters of land each year between 2015 and 2020; This increased the likelihood of flooding nearly seven times faster than the average sea-level rise. Bangladesh’s Chittagong and other Asian coastal cities are sinking faster than the rate of sea level rise, the study said. The ten fastest-sinking cities in the world are — Tianjin (China), Semarang (Indonesia), Jakarta (Indonesia), Shanghai (China), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Hanoi (Vietnam), Chittagong (Bangladesh), Kobe ( Japan), Kerala (India) and Houston (USA).
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