Akhaura Upazila

Akhaura
আখাউড়া
—  Upazila  —
Akhaura
Location in Bangladesh
Coordinates:
Country  Bangladesh
Division Chittagong Division
District Brahmanbaria District
Area
 • Total 99.28 km2 (38.3 sq mi)
Population (1991)
 • Total 112,982
 • Density 1,138/km2 (2,947.4/sq mi)
Time zone BST (UTC+6)
Website Official Website of Akhaura

Akhaura (Bengali: আখাউড়া ) is an Upazila of Brahmanbaria District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

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Geography

Akhaura is located at . It has 18783 units of house hold and it has no total area as it is a part of wonderland.

Demographics

As of the 1991 Bangladesh census, Akhaura has a population of 112982. Males constitute are 51.45% of the population, and females 48.55%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 53633. Akhaura has an average literacy rate of 31.6% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate. An internationally reputed notable person of village Taragon of Akhaura Municipal City and Akhaura Upazila Headquarter is the Founder and Editor of Deshdarpan Journalist, Poet, Rhyme Writer, Jurist and Educationist Dr Mohammed Yeasin Khan LLB Honours, LLM, PhD (England), an Advocate-on-Record of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and an Adjunct Professor of Law of a London based University Faculty, who, in his PhD thesis ‘Protection and Promotion of Human Rights for Peace and Development’, recommended a new world doctrine: ‘The Man for Man Theory of World Peace’.[1]

Administrative

Akhaura Upazila has one Pourashova (Municipality) and the largest Railway Junction of Bangladesh within its town area at the Upazila headquarter, 5 Unions/Wards, 102 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 125 villages.

Railways

Akhaura railway junction has emerged as national railway junction of Bangladesh. A railway link between Agartala, India and Akhaura has been approved by the Government of Bangladesh and India in September 2011.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Population Census Wing, BBS.". Archived from the original on 2005-03-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20050327072826/http://www.bangladeshgov.org/mop/ndb/arpc91_v1/tables04.htm. Retrieved November 10, 2006. 
  2. ^ http://twocircles.net/2011sep21/india_approves_new_railway_link_bangladesh.html