Tala ( bn, তালা) is an

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 the

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in the

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Geography

Tala is located at and has a total area of 344.15 km².

History

Tala was established in 1913 and made an upazila in 1983.

Demographics

According to the

2011 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 ...

, Tala had a population of 299,820. Males constituted 49.83% of the population and females 50.17%. Muslims formed 73.46% of the population, Hindus 25.76%, Christians 0.62% and others 0.16%. Tala had a literacy rate of 50.88% 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 ...

, Tala has a population of 251388. 51.31% of the population is male, and 48.69% is female.

Administration

Tala Upazila is divided into 12

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 ...

s: Dhandia, Islamkati, Jalalpur, Khalilnagar, Khalishkhali, Khesra, Kumira, Magura, Nagarghata, Sarulia, Tala, and Tentulia. The union parishads are subdivided into 150 mauzas and 229 villages.

Education

According to Banglapedia, Kumira Multilateral High School, founded in 1902, is a notable secondary school.

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