Sunamganj (District)

Sunamganj District
Basic data
Country	Bangladesh
division	Sylhet
Seat	Sunamganj
surface	3,747.2 km²
Residents	2,467,968 (2011)
density	659 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BD-61
Website	sunamganj.gov.bd

Coordinates: 25 ° 2 ′  N , 91 ° 24 ′  E

Sunamganj ( Bengali : সুনামগঞ্জ জেলা , Sunāmagañj jelā ) is an administrative district in northeastern Bangladesh , which is part of the Sylhet Division , the superordinate administrative unit. The district capital is also called Sunamganj .

geography

The 3747.18 km² district borders on the Habiganj district in the north, the Sylhet districts in the east, the Indian state of Tripura in the south and the Brahmanbaria and Kishoreganj districts in the west .

The main rivers are the Kushiyara and the Surma , which are actually two arms of the Barak .

climate

The temperatures fluctuate between 8.6 ° C and 32.7 ° Celsius. The average annual rainfall is 3080 mm. The average humidity is over 70%. There is little rain in the months from November to March. June, July and August are the months with the most rain.

history

From 350 the area of ​​today's district was part of the empire of Kamarupa . From 600 it belonged to the Kingdom of Laur , which existed until 1565. From 1565 to 1765 it was part of the Mughal Empire . From 1765 it belonged to British India as part of the Dhaka Division and from 1874 to Assam and the Sylhet district. From 1947 to 1971 the district was part of East Pakistan in the Republic of Pakistan. On March 1, 1984, the previous sub-district Habiganj became an independent district.

population

Population development

As everywhere in Bangladesh, the population in the district has been growing rapidly for decades. The following table illustrates this:

age structure

As everywhere in Bangladesh, the population is on average very young. The average age at the last census in 2011 was 19.94 years with a slightly increasing trend.

The 2011 census showed the following age structure:

Age	0–9 years	10–19 years	20-29 years	30–39 years	40-49 years	50–59 years	60–69 years	70–79 years	80 years and more
number	746101	515,644	387.766	291,518	211,818	132.816	97.221	54,170	30,914
proportion of	30.23%	20.89%	15.71%	11.81%	8.58%	5.38%	3.94%	2.19%	1.25%
Source: Zila Sunamganj, table P14, page 444

Significant places

The most populous place within the district is the district capital Sunamganj . Other cities (Town) are Chhatak , Derai and Jagannathpur . But with Dharmapasha , Doarabazar and Jamalganj there are three other places without city rights with more than 10,000 inhabitants. The urban population makes up only 11.73 percent of the total population. The named places have the following population figures:

administration

Although Sunamganj was created in 1874 as an administrative subunit of the Sylhet district, it was not until 1984 that it received the status of an independent national administrative district. Sunamganj is divided into eleven Upazilas : Bishwambarpur, Chhatak, Dakshin Sunamganj, Derai, Dharmapasha, Doarabazar, Jagannathpur, Jamalganj, Shalla, Sunamganj Sadar and Tahirpur. Within this administrative division there are four self-governing towns ( municipalities ), 87 Union Parishads (village councils) and 2887 villages.

Web links

• Article on Sunamganj District at Banglapedia
• Sunamganj at the 2011 census
• Zila Sunamganj at the 2011 census
• Article Laur in the Imperial Gazetteer of India
• Article Sunamganj in the Imperial Gazetteer of India