Chittagong Division of Bangladesh

Bangladesh is divided into seven administrative divisions where Chittagong comprises the most south eastern part of the country. It is possibly the most largest division of Bangladesh with a total area of 33, 771 sq km. It has a total population of 28, 079,000 according to the Census of 2011. Chittagong is subdivided into eleven administrative districts or zilas, further those are sub-divided into more 99 thanas or upazilas. A largest part of the country Chittagong Hill Tracts is included into this division and it is proposed for another separate division. When four division existed in this country then the sixth division Shylhet was also a part of chittagong division. World largest sea beach cox's bazar sea beach is located into this division at the district of Cox's Bazar. It becomes famous and attractive place for tourists during the year round.

The Administrative Districts of Chittagong Division 

 Attractive and Beauteous Picture of Chittagong

Brahmanbaria District

Comilla District

Chandpur District

Lakshmipur District

Noakhali District

Feni District

Chittagong District

Khagrachhari District

Rangamati District

Bandarban District

Cox's Bazar District

The first six districts listed below comprise the north-western part of the division, while the remaining five comprise the south-eastern part. The upland districts of Khagrachhari, Rangamati and Bandarban together form that area before known as the Chittagong Hill Tracts. People of Chittagong division claim there are about 30 millions people are lived in. Some districts and areas of Chittagong has very low population density. Most of the tribal of Bangladesh live in Chittagong division. Now tribal are Citizen of Bangladesh and allow to give vote.

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Divisions of Bangladesh with comrpising districts and population statistics

 

Bangladesh is a country of South Asia with 147570 sq km areas. It's one side is surrounded by Bay of Bengal. With the new division Rangpur Bangladesh is divided into seven divisions (Bibhag). Each division contains individual numeric code, letter code and ISO sequence code. The divisions are following...

The above statistics are accordingly Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics(BBS) Report 2011 and statoids.com. Bangladesh is also proposed of three more divisions and these are Chittagong Hill Tracks division, Comilla Division and Mymensing Division. Bangladesh is divided into 7 divisions which are sub-divided into 21 regions, then into 64 districts(Zilla), further 493 thana or upazillas and finally into unions and villages.

Bangladesh has a glorious history of Independence. In 1971, she gained independence from Pakistan. After liberation Bangladesh was divided into four divisions Chittagong, Dacca(now dhaka), Khulna and Rajshahi. The last recognized division is Rangpur and it has the biggest city corporation area among others. In Early January, 2010 Rangpur was divided from Rajshahi division with eight nearest districts including Rangpur. Wikipedia has helped us to get more information.

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