What is Banglapedia?
{{infobox Book | | name = Banglapedia | title_orig = | translator = | image = | image_caption = National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh | author = Professor [[Sirajul Islam]] (Chief Editor) | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = {{flagicon|Bangladesh}} [[Bangladesh]] | language = [[English language|English]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]] | series = | genre = [[Encyclopedia]] | publisher = Banglapedia Trust, [[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]] | release_date = January 2003 | media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]]), CD-ROM, Online | pages = 10 Volumes | isbn = 9843205766 | preceded_by = | followed_by = | website = *{{URL|en.banglapedia.org}} (English Edition) *{{URL|bn.banglapedia.org}} (Bengali Edition)}} '''''Banglapedia''''', or the ''National [[Encyclopedia]] of [[Bangladesh]]'', is the first Bangladeshi encyclopedia.<ref name=accu>{{cite web | title = Banglapedia | work = Bangladesh | publisher = Asia Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO | url = http://www.accu.or.jp/appreb/02/02-02/02-02country/02ban.html | access-date = 2007-06-07}}</ref> It is available in print, [[CD-ROM]] format and online,<ref name=CDR>{{cite news | last = Staff Correspondent | title = Banglapedia on CD-Rom to hit market by February | publisher = The New Age | date = 2004-01-02 | url = http://www.weeklyholiday.net/020104/tech.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050207152425/http://www.weeklyholiday.net/020104/tech.html | access-date = 2007-07-23| archive-date = 2005-02-07 }}</ref> in both [[Bengali language|Bangla]] and [[English language|English]].<ref>{{cite news | last = Iqbal | first = Iftekhar | title = The case for Bangladesh Studies | publisher = The Daily Star | date = 2006-11-16 | url = http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/11/16/d611161502126.htm | access-date = 2007-06-07}}</ref> The print version comprises has 500-page volumes. The first edition was published in January 2003 by the [[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]],<ref name=SDNP>{{cite web | author = UNB | title = Compilation of Banglapedia completed