Bayazid Bostami ( bn, বায়েজীদ বোস্তামী) is a

thana Thana means "police station" in South Asian countries, and can also mean the district controlled by a police station. * Thanas of Bangladesh, former subdistricts in the administrative geography of Bangladesh; later renamed ''upazila'' * in (Briti ...

of Chattogram District in

Chattogram Division Chittagong Division, officially known as Chattogram Division, is geographically the largest of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh. It covers the south-easternmost areas of the country, with a total area of and a population at the 2 ...

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

. There are three wards in the Thana.

History

This thana is named after the Persian Sufi

Bayazid Bostami Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr bin ʿĪsā bin Surūshān al-Bisṭāmī (al-Basṭāmī) (d. 261/874–5 or 234/848–9), commonly known in the Iranian world as Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī ( fa, بایزید بسطامی), was a PersianWalbridge, John. " ...

one of whose

shrine A shrine ( la, scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: ''escrin'' "box or case") is a sacred or holy sacred space, space dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor worship, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, Daemon (mythology), daem ...

is located under this thana. It was established on 27 May in 2000.

Geography

Total area of this thana is 17.58 km² It is located at .

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, population of this thana is 211,355. Density of population is 12,022.5/km².

References

Thanas of Chittagong District {{Chittagong-geo-stub

History

Geography

Demographics

See also

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