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Bheramara ( bn, ভেড়ামারা) is an
Bheramara is located at . It has 26384 households and total area 153.72 km2.
Bheramara sub-district is located within Kushtia district, Bangladesh and falls roughly within 23° 40′ – 24° 10′
N and 88° 45′ – 89° 20′ E. The town of Bheramara has an area of 3.26 km2 and a population of 20,676.
Agriculture is the main occupation of the people and the major crops are paddy, wheat, mustard, sweet potato,
sunflower, onion, garlic, betel leaf, tobacco, and sugarcane. The survey was conducted in Bheramara town and
its immediate vicinity.
upazila
An ''upazila'' ( bn, উপজেলা, upôzela, lit=sub-district pronounced: ), formerly called ''thana'', is an administrative region in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a ...
of Kushtia District
Kushtia District ( bn, কুষ্টিয়া জেলা, pronunciation: ''kuʃʈia'') is a district in the Khulna administrative division of western Bangladesh. Kushtia is the second largest municipality in Bangladesh and the eleventh l ...
in the Division of Khulna
Khulna ( bn, খুলনা, ) is the third-largest city in Bangladesh, after Dhaka and Chittagong. It is the administrative centre of Khulna District and Khulna Division. Khulna's economy is the third-largest in Bangladesh, contributing $53 b ...
, 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 ...
. The upazila is beside the Padma River
The Padma ( bn, পদ্মা ''Pôdma'') is a major river in Bangladesh. It is the main distributary of the Ganges, flowing generally southeast for to its confluence with the Meghna River near the Bay of Bengal. The city of Rajshahi is sit ...
, and the important Hardinge Bridge
Hardinge Bridge is a steel railway truss bridge over the Padma River located at Ishwardi, Pabna and Bheramara, and Kushtia in Bangladesh. It is named after Lord Hardinge, who was the Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916. The bridge is long.
Co ...
crosses the river between Bheramara Upazila and Ishurdi Upazila of Pabna District
Pabna District ( bn, পাবনা জেলা) is a district in central Bangladesh. It is an economically important district in Bangladesh. Its administrative capital is the eponymous Pabna town.
History
Archeologist Cunningham conjectured ...
.
Geography
Bheramara is located at . It has 26384 households and total area 153.72 km2.
Bheramara sub-district is located within Kushtia district, Bangladesh and falls roughly within 23° 40′ – 24° 10′
N and 88° 45′ – 89° 20′ E. The town of Bheramara has an area of 3.26 km2 and a population of 20,676.
Agriculture is the main occupation of the people and the major crops are paddy, wheat, mustard, sweet potato,
sunflower, onion, garlic, betel leaf, tobacco, and sugarcane. The survey was conducted in Bheramara town and
its immediate vicinity.
Demographics
According to2011 Bangladesh census
In 2011, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh, which provided a provisional estimate of the total population of the country as 142,319,000. The previous decennial census was the 2001 census. Data were reco ...
, Bhermara had a population of 200,084. Males constituted 49.39% of the population and females 50.61. Muslims formed 97.760% of the population, Hindus 2.216%, Christians 0.005% and others 0.019%. Bheramara had a literacy rate of 48.74% for the population 7 years and above.
As of the 1991 Bangladesh census
In 1991, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh. They recorded data from all of the districts and upazilas and main cities in Bangladesh including statistical data on population size, households, sex and age ...
, Bheramara had a population of 144,221. Males constituted 51.55% of the population, and females 48.45%. This Upazila's eighteen up population was 72,279. Bheramara had an average literacy rate of 28.1% (7+ years), compared to the national average of 32.4% literate.
Administration
Bheramara Upazila is divided into Bheramara Municipality and sixunion parishad
Union council ( bn, ইউনিয়ন পরিষদ, translit=iūniyan pariṣad, translit-std=IAST), also known as union parishad, rural council, rural union and simply union, is the smallest rural administrative and local government unit ...
s: Bhadarpur, Bahir Char, Chandgram, Dharmapur, Juniadaha, and Mokarimpur. The union parishads are subdivided into 43 mauzas and 78 villages.
Bheramara Municipality is subdivided into 9 wards and 15 mahalla
is an Arabic word variously translated as district, quarter, ward, or "neighborhood" in many parts of the Arab world, the Balkans, Western Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and nearby nations.
History
Historically, mahallas were autonomous social ins ...
s.
See also
*Upazilas of Bangladesh
An ''upazila'' ( bn, উপজেলা, upôzela, lit=sub-district pronounced: ), formerly called ''thana'', is an administrative region in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a ...
* Districts of Bangladesh
* Divisions of Bangladesh
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