Bandarban District
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Key facts
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Division
- Chittagong Division
- As a district
- 18 April 1981
- Capital
- Bandarban
- Type
- District Council
- Body
- Bandarban Hill District Council
- Deputy commissioner
- Yasmin Parvin Tibriji
- Chief executive officer
- A. T. M. Kawser Hossain
- Total
- 4,479.03 km (1,729.36 sq mi)
- Density
- 107.413/km (278.198/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00 ( BST )
- Area code
- 0361
- Iso 3166 code
- BD-01
- Hdi 2019
- 0.574 , medium · 19th of 20
- Website
- bandarban .gov .bd
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Bangladesh
- Official name
- বান্দরবান জেলা
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Located in
- Chattogram Division
- Contains
- Thanchi Upazila
- Capital
- Bandarban
- Population
- 481106
- Area
- 4479.02
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Shares border with
- Rangamati District
- Official website
- www.bandarban.gov.bd
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- Bandarban District
- native label
- বান্দরবান জেলা
- postal code
- ৪৬০০
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Encyclopedic overview
Bandarban District (Bengali: বান্দরবান জেলা), officially Bandarban Hill District, is a district in South-Eastern Bangladesh, and a part of the Chittagong Division. It is one of the three hill districts of Bangladesh and a part of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the others being Rangamati District and Khagrachhari District. Bandarban district (4,479 km) is not only the most remote district of the country, but also the least populous (population 388,000). There is an army contingent at Bandarban Cantonment.
Demographics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bandarban District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.