Tags: Ethnic Group.
A British Bangladeshi (Bengali: ব্রিটিশ বাংলাদেশি) is a person of Bangladeshi origin who resides in the United Kingdom having emigrated to the UK and attained citizenship through naturalisation or whose ancestors did so; they are also known as British Bengalis. Large numbers of Bangladeshis emigrated to the UK primarily from Sylhet located in the north-east of the country mainly during the 1970s.