While they didn’t clarify which those islands are on a map, one of the officials explained that Char Piya and Thengar Char are not the same, and that Thengar Char is a short distance west of Char Piya. Its maps identify the larger island as Thengar Char, while Google Maps labels the larger island as Char Piya. A source in Bangladesh’s Navy provided coordinates that pointed to the larger island when asked for the location of Thengar Char by Quartz. Professor Islam, of Dhaka University, also told Quartz that this island known as Thengar Char. Geomorphologist Maminul Haque Sarker, of Dhaka’s Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services, identified the smaller island as Thengar Char, and told Quartz that Char Piya is an older island to the north-north-west.

Source: bd News24 October 25, 2017 22:52 UTC