Patiya Upazila

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Patiya Upazila
Patiya
Division_name - District	Chittagong Division - Chittagong District
Coordinates	22.3000° N 91.9833° E
Area	316.47 km²
Time zone	BST (UTC+6)
Population (1991) - Density	398836 - 1260/km²
Maplink: Official Map of Patiya

Patiya (Bengali: পটিয়া) is an Upazila of Chittagong District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

1 Geography
2 Demographics
3 Administrative
4 History
5 See also
6 References

[edit] Geography

Patiya is located at 22.3000° N 91.9833° E . It has 70218 units of house hold and total area 316.47 km².

[edit] Demographics

As of 1991 Bangladesh census^[1], Patiya has a population of 398836. Males constitute are 52.1% of the population, and females 47.9%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 197399. Patiya has an average literacy rate of 44.3% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate. ^[2]

[edit] Administrative

Patiya has 25 Unions/Wards, 136 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 124 villages. The township of Patiya has an area of 9.96 km². It is divided into 9 wards and 9 mahallas.

[edit] History

During the British rule, a police station was established in Patiya in 1845. It was upgraded to an upazila in 1984. The region saw a lot of revolutionary activities in the 1930s, when revolutionaries from Jugantar and the fugitives of the Chittagong armoury raid fought with British police. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, the area sustained heavy bombings from Pakistan Air Force ^[3].