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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.
Bahria Town Karachi is a privately owned gated suburb just off the M-9 Motorway northeast of Karachi, Pakistan. [2] The suburb is being developed by the Bahria Town Group , and occupies over 46,000 acres (72 sq mi; 19,000 ha).
The divisions of Bangladesh are further divided into districts or zilas (Bengali: জেলা). [1] The headquarters of a district is called the district seat (Bengali: জেলা সদর, romanized: zila sadar). There are 64 districts in Bangladesh. The districts are further subdivided into 495 subdistricts or upazilas. [2]
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).
ISO 3166-2:BD is the entry for Bangladesh in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Chittagong Colony (Urdu: چٹگاؤں کالونی, Bengali: চিটাগাং কলোনি) is a neighbourhood in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The name comes probably because people of Chittagong origin might have settled there first. [1] Mostly Bangladeshi things dominate this, which is part of S.I.T.E. Town in the west of the city.
This is a list of successive governments of the People's Republic of Bangladesh from the time of the establishment of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh on 10 April, 1971. [ 1 ] List
In 2015, it launched Bahria Town Karachi, the largest of its gated communities, while Bahria Enclave Islamabad (launched in 2013) is the smallest of them. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Most of these communities are large towns in their own right, its oldest community in Southern Rawalpindi/Islamabad area spans over 16,000 hectares (40,000 acres). [ 6 ]