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The headquarters of a district is called the district seat (Bengali: জেলা সদর, romanized: zila sadar). There are 64 districts in Bangladesh. There are 64 districts in Bangladesh. The districts are further subdivided into 495 subdistricts or upazilas .
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).
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.
There are 8 divisions and 64 districts in Bangladesh, each district further subdivided into upazila (lit. subdistricts). The area within each subdistrict, except for those in metropolitan areas, is divided into several unions, with each union consisting of multiple villages. Direct elections are held for each union (or ward), electing a ...
Rajshahi Division (Bengali: রাজশাহী বিভাগ) is one of the eight first-level administrative divisions of Bangladesh.It has an area of 18,174.4 square kilometres (7,017.2 sq mi) [6] and a population at the 2022 Census of 20,353,119. [7]
12.8 Bangladesh Janata Party Md. Siraj Uddin 1,404 1.9 FP: Md. Abdul Gafur 1,117 1.5 Zaker Party Harun Or Rashid 571 0.8 Independent: Jainul Abedin 267 0.4 Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD: Md. Saidur Rahman Vuiyan 193 0.3 Independent: Anwarul Kadir 143 0.2 Majority 3,114 4.2 Turnout: 73,784 45.0 JP(E) hold
Dinajpur District, Bangladesh (6 C, 17 P) Districts of Bangladesh by division (9 C) Districts of Bangladesh established before 1971 (19 P) F. Faridpur District (6 C ...
Panchagarh District (Bengali: পঞ্চগড় জেলা) is a district of the Rangpur Division in Northern Bangladesh. Panchagarh is the northernmost district of Bangladesh. It lies between 26º00' and 26º38' north latitudes and between 88º19' and 88º49' east longitudes. It was established as a district on 1 February 1984.