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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Rangpur Division and The Including Districts

 Rangpur Division Bangla Map

Rangpur is one of the major city of Bangladesh. Recently it has been declare as Rangpur Division and City corporation. Now Rangpur is the biggest City Corporation of Bangladesh. Rangpur division comprises with seven nearest districts surrounding the city. These are Gaibandha, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Nilfamari, Dinajpur, Thakurgaon and Panchagar. Rangpur division is situated at norther portion of Bangladesh. 

 Rangpur City Corporation

People of Rangpur division become happy to have it. People of Rangpur division was under Rajshahi division and they now feel proud to get this division at nearest zone. As the most largest city corporation Rangpur have 2534365 peoples where about 50% of their are male and rest are female. About 90% people of Rangpur are Muslim, 8% Hindus and rests are Christan and others. Rangpur division is an agriculture based area where most of the peoples earn their living from land and lives in rural area.

   Real Picture of Rural Area People of Rangpur Divisional Districs

 In some rural areas of Rangpur division do not see the modern civilization yet. Most of people of Rangpur division lives under poverty. They can not come out from the curse of poverty yet. Flood is a common factor in most of the districts of Rangpur Division. Every year thousands people are losing their residence to river's ground. People of this division suffers a lot in winter season also. Average temperature of winter season in this divisional districts are bellow than 18°C. Temperature contain in January is near to 13°C or bellow. In Rangpur division once grown jute mostly but it has reduced to the present day. Now paddy, potato, tobacco, sugarcane and wheat are prime crops of Rangpur divisional districts.

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