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The Chittagong Hills, which are the only significant hill system in the country, contain at least seventy-five mountain peaks, which range in altitude approximately from 600 to 1,000 m (2,000 to 3,300 ft) above sea level. The highest point in the Chittagongs and Bangladesh is at 1,063 metres (3,488 ft) at Saka Haphong in the Mowdok mountain range.
Map of Bangladesh Bangladesh is a densely populated, low-lying, mainly riverine country located in South Asia with a coastline of 580 km (360 mi) on the northern littoral of the Bay of Bengal . The delta plain of the Ganges (Padma) , Brahmaputra (Jamuna) , and Meghna Rivers and their tributaries occupy 79 percent of the country.
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is a extensive hilly area in Bangladesh, lie in the southeastern part of the country (210 25' N to 230 45' N latitude and 910 54' E to 920 50' E longitude) bordering the Indian state of Tripura on the north, Rakhine State of Myanmar on the south, Chin state of Myanmar and Indian state Mizoram on the east, Chittagong District and Cox's Bazar District on the west.
The mountains of Bangladesh. Pages in category "Mountains of Bangladesh" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ...
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An urban centre with a population of less than 100,000 is defined as a "town". In total, there are 490 such towns in Bangladesh. [3] Among these, 287 towns are governed by "Municipal Corporations". These are called "Paurashava"s in the local Bengali language. Altogether, including the ones governing the 32 other non-major cities, there are 318 ...
Coastline, roads, railroads, and place names are based on a 1996 CIA map (File:Bangladesh_LOC_1996_map.jpg). Topography data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Relief shading is an embedded PNG raster, derived from the SRTM data using Perl. Bathymetry from NGDC ETOPO2. The data was processed in Perl and projected using Geo::Proj4.
Bangladesh is divided into 8 divisions (bibhag) and 64 districts (jela, zila, zela), although, these have only a limited role in public policy.For the purposes of local government, the country is divided into upazilas (sub-districts), "municipalities" or town councils (pourashova), city corporations (i.e. metropolitan municipal corporations) and union councils (i.e. rural councils).