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A district council (or zila parishad) is a local government body at the district level. [4] The Bengali word parishad means council and zila parishad translates to district council. The functions of a district council include the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges.
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.
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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]
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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).
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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.