With over ten million people in the city and suburbs, Chennai (formerly known as Madras) is the biggest economic, cultural, and educational center of south India.

Visakhapatnam is a port city and industrial center of Andrah Pradesh. Also called Vizag, for short.

Paradeep is a large port city, exporting coal and metal ore, in Odisha state. Lots of trucks.

The Sundarbans in southwestern Bangladesh are the largest mangrove swamp in the world.

Alorkol is a fishing village, occupied only for three or four months a year.

Maheskhali Island is near Cox's Bazar on the coast near the southern end of Bangladesh. We visited several communities on the southeastern corner of the island.

Thandwe is a port city and market town in the westernmost part of Myanmar.