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The divisions of Bangladesh are further divided into districts or zilas (Bengali: জেলা). [1] The headquarters of a district is called the district seat (Bengali: জেলা সদর, romanized: zila sadar). There are 64 districts in Bangladesh. The districts are further subdivided into 495 subdistricts or upazilas. [2]
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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.
The Greater Rangpur district was divided in five districts in 1984. The population of the district is 2.9 million according to the 2011 census. There has been a 1.2% annual population growth between 2001 and 2011. The population density of the area is 1,200/km 2.
Following the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the country had four divisions: Chittagong Division, Dacca Division, Khulna Division, and Rajshahi Division. In 1982, the English spelling of the Dacca Division (along with the name of the capital city) was changed into Dhaka Division to more closely match the Bengali pronunciation.
The urban centers of Bangladesh have a combined area of about 10600 square kilometers, which is 7% of the total area of Bangladesh. As such, Bangladesh has a very high urban population density: 4028 persons per square kilometer (2011), whereas the rural density is significantly lower: 790 persons per square kilometer (2011). [1]