Khagrachari District
The district Khagrachhari ( Bengali: খাগড়াছড়ি জেলা, Khāgaṛāchaṛi Jela ) is an administrative unit in the south-eastern Bangladesh, located within the Division Chittagong. The district capital is also called Khagrachhari.
The 2699.55 km ² large district is bordered to the north by the Indian state of Tripura, on the east by the neighboring district Rangamati, in the south again. At Rangamati and Chittagong and on the west by Chittagong and Tripura
The main waters of the dominated by forests and mountains district are the Mataipukhiri Lake and the rivers Feni, Chingri, Maini and Halda. The four main mountain ranges are Khagrachharis Alu Tila, Bhanga Mura, Matai Pukhiri and Matai Lakho. The district is part of the mountainous region of Chittagong Hill Tracts.
The Chittagong Hill Tracts were under the rule Tripuras, Arakans and the sultans before they fall within the sphere of influence of the British East India Company in 1760. The Administrative District of the Chittagong Hill Tracts was created in 1860 during the British colonial rule by the ' Frontier Tribes Act 22 of 1860 '. In 1900, the mountain area was divided by the Chittagong Hill Tract Regulation Act in three Subverwaltungseinteilungen.
1989 by the Khagrachhari Hill District Council, Act 20 of the Local Government Legislative Council Khagrachhari was created. With the signing of a peace treaty local rebel groups and the state of Bangladesh in December 1997 was installed to manage themselves with the Khagrachhari Hill District Council a committee.
The 1983 created administrative district is divided into eight so-called Upazilas: Dighinala, Khagrachhari Sadar, Lakshmichhari, Manichhari, Ranga Mati, Panchhari and Ramgarh. Within this administrative subdivision, there is a self-governing city ( municipality ), 34 Union Parishads (village councils) and 953 villages.
The over half a million inhabitants, the population is ethnically very diverse; Even before the religious background: live In Khagrachhari in clear conflict with the National Muslim dominant country, a significant number of Buddhists who there at least one- third of the population and Hindus.
Agricultural main products are rice, corn, ginger and turmeric (turmeric ). As the most common fruits are papaya, banana, pineapple, jackfruit, mangoes, lychees, coconuts and limes. The main export products are rubber, cotton products, ginger, turmeric, pineapple and wood.