union 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 ...
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Daganbhuiyan Upazila
Daganbhuiyan ( bn, দাগনভূইয়া) is an upazila of Feni District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Geography
Dagonbhuiyan is located at . It has 34750 households and a total area of 165.84 km2.
Demographics
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Feni District
Feni is a district located in southeastern Bangladesh. It was a part of the Greater Noakhali, Comilla, Chittagong and Tripura. , the district's estimated population stood at 1,437,371, making it the ninth-most populous district in Chittagong Divis ...
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Chittagong 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 ...
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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 ...
. It was established in 1959.
Matubhuiyan Union has a total area of .
The Chotta Feni River flows south through the union. Matubhuiyan Union is divided into 10 mauzas: Ashrafpur, Dakshin Dharmmapur, Dakshin Lalpur, Krishna Rampur, Maheshpur, Mamarizpur, Paschim Hirapur, Ramanandapur, Salamnagar (Lakhanpur), and Uttar Alipur.
Notable residents
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Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a ...