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Tongi
Sign in to saveTongi () is a major township in Gazipur, Bangladesh, with a population of 350,000. It hosts the Biswa Ijtema and features a BSCIC industrial area, which produces BDT 1500 crore of industrial products annually, and marks the northern border of Dhaka since 1786. The Tongi Shahid Smrity high School compound is a mass burial site of the genocide committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War. It is part of Greater Dhaka.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Tongi
- Settlement.native_name
- টঙ্গী
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tongi Flyover.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- A road in Tongi
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Bangladesh Dhaka division#Bangladesh
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Dhaka Division##Location in Bangladesh
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Division
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Dhaka Division
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- টঙ্গী
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Located in
- Gazipur District
- Population
- +350000
- Area
- +31.15
- Elevation
- +3
- Image
- Tongi Railway Station, Bangladesh.JPG
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography and administration
- Demography
- River
- Thana
- Transport
- Education
- Medical colleges and hospitals
- Notable people
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Tongi () is a major township in Gazipur, Bangladesh, with a population of 350,000. It hosts the Biswa Ijtema and features a BSCIC industrial area, which produces BDT 1500 crore of industrial products annually, and marks the northern border of Dhaka since 1786. The Tongi Shahid Smrity high School compound is a mass burial site of the genocide committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War. It is part of Greater Dhaka.
==History== thumb|Ruins of Tungy Bridge, an etching by Charles D'Oyly's (1825). Mir Jumla II (1660–1663) built a fort to protect the northern entry of Dhaka during his reign as a Mughal subadar (1660–1663). The subadar also built a bridge over the river Turag. Mir Jumla constructed a road, now a part of the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, that connected Tongi with Bag-e-Badshahi. It served as an axis of urban growth in the 19th and 20th centuries as sites for establishment of new urban settlements - Gulshan (formed in 1961), Banani (in 1964), Baridhara (in 1972) and Uttara (in 1965) - were picked off the highlands along that axis road.