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Cox's Bazar
Beach, located at Cox's
Bazar, Bangladesh, is the longest unbroken sea beach in the world, running
120 kilometers (75 mi). It is the top tourist destination of
Bangladesh. At high tide the beach is 200 metres (660 ft) wide and at low
tide it is 400 meters (1,300 ft) wide on average, Quicksand is a danger during ebb tide.
Saint Martin's Island (Bengali: সেন্ট
মার্টিন্স দ্বীপ) is a small island (area only 8 km2) in
the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the
tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and forming the
southernmost part of Bangladesh. There is a small adjoining island that is
separated at high tide, called Chera Dwip. It is about 8 kilometres (5 miles)
west of the northwest coast of Myanmar, at the mouth of the Naf River.
The
first settlement started 250 years ago by Arabian sailors who named the island
'Jazeera'. During British occupation
the island was named St. Martin Island. During the First Anglo-Burmese
War between the British and Burmese empires in 1824–1826, rival
claims to the island were a major factor. The local names of the island are
"Narikel jinjira” which means 'Coconut Island' in Bengali, and "Daruchini Dwip". It is
the only coral island in
Bangladesh
