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Cox's Bazar (; ; ) is a city, fishing port, tourism centre, and
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headquarters in south-eastern
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. Cox's Bazar Beach, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Bangladesh, is the longest uninterrupted naturally occurring sea beach in the world. Located south of the city of
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, Cox's Bazar is also known by the name ''Panowa'', which translates literally as "yellow flower." An old name was "Palongkee". The city covers an area of with 58
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s and 27 wards and as of 2022 had a population of nearly 200,000. Cox's Bazar is connected by road and air with
Chittagong Chittagong ( ), officially Chattogram, (, ) (, or ) is the second-largest city in Bangladesh. Home to the Port of Chittagong, it is the busiest port in Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. The city is also the business capital of Bangladesh. It ...
. The modern Cox's Bazar derives its name from Captain Hiram Cox, an officer of the
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, a Superintendent of Palongkee outpost. To commemorate his role in refugee rehabilitation work, a market was established and named after him. It is one of Bangladesh's main tourist spots.


History

During the early 9th century, the greater Chittagong area, including Cox's Bazar, was under the rule of
Arakan Arakan ( or ; , ), formerly anglicised as Aracan, is the historical geographical name for the northeastern coastal region of the Bay of Bengal, covering present-day Bangladesh and Myanmar. The region was called "Arakan" for centuries. It is ...
kings until its conquest by the
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in 1666. When the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja was passing through the hilly terrain of the present-day Cox's Bazar on his way to Arakan, he was attracted to its scenic and captivating beauty. He commanded his forces to camp there. His retinue of one thousand
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s stopped there for some time. A place named '' Dulahazara,'' meaning "one thousand palanquins," still exists in the area. After the Mughals, the place came under the control of the Tipras and the Arakanese, followed by the Portuguese and then the
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. The name Cox's Bazar originated from British
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(EIC) official Hiram Cox, who was appointed as the Superintendent of Palonki (today's Cox's Bazar) outpost. He succeeded
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, who became the
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following the passage of the Regulating Act 1773. Cox embarked upon the task of rehabilitation and settlement for the Arakanese refugees in the area. He rehabilitated many refugees in the area, but died in 1799 before finishing his work. To commemorate him, a market was established and named after him, called Cox's Bazar. Cox's Bazar was first established in 1854 and became a municipality in 1869. After the
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,
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came to an end and was replaced by the
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. As a result, Cox's Bazar was declared a district of the Bengal Province under the British Crown.


20th century

Just after the end of British rule in India in 1947, Cox's Bazar became part of
East Pakistan East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, wit ...
. Captain Advocate Fazlul Karim, the first post-independence chairman of Cox's Bazar Municipality, established the Tamarisk Forest along the beach. He wanted to attract tourists as well as to protect the beach from
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s. He donated much of his father-in-law's and his own lands as sites for constructing a public library and a town hall. Karim was inspired to build Cox's Bazar as a tourist spot after seeing beaches of Bombay and Karachi, and was a resort pioneer in developing Cox's Bazar as a destination. Karim established a maternity hospital, the stadium and the drainage system by procuring grants from the
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and
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through correspondence. T. H. Matthews, the principal of the Dacca Engineering College (1 49~1954), was a friend who had helped him in these fundraising efforts. Engineer Chandi Charan Das was the government civil engineer who worked on all these projects. In 1959 the municipality was turned into a town committee. In 1961 the
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initiated investigation of radioactive minerals like monazite around the Cox's Bazar sea-beach area. In 1971, Cox's Bazar
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was used as a naval port by the
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's
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. This and the nearby
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of the
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were the scene of intense shelling by the
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during the
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. During the war, Pakistani soldiers killed many people in the town, including eminent lawyer Jnanendralal Chowdhury. The killing of two freedom fighters named Farhad and Subhash at Badar Mokam is also recorded in history. After Bangladesh's independence, Cox's Bazar started to receive administrative attention. In 1972 the town committee of Cox's Bazar was once again turned into a municipality. In 1975, The government of Bangladesh established a pilot plant at Kalatali. In 1984, Cox's Bazar subdivision was promoted to a district, and five years later (in 1989) the Cox's Bazar municipality was elevated to B-grade. In 1994 (jobs) the Marine Fisheries and Technology Station (MFTS) was established at Cox's Bazar. MFTS is a research station of Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) headquartered in
Mymensingh Mymensingh () is a metropolis, metropolitan city and capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh. Located on the bank of the Old Brahmaputra River, Brahmaputra River, about north of the national capital Dhaka, it is a major financial center ...
. The station covers a land area of four hectares and contains five laboratories.


21st century

In September 2012 the municipality was the site of the Cox's Bazar and Ramu riots, where local Muslims attacked the Buddhist community over an alleged
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posted to Facebook. In 2017, hundreds of thousands of
Rohingya The Rohingya people (; ; ) are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who predominantly follow Islam from Rakhine State, Myanmar. Before the Rohingya genocide in 2017, when over 740,000 fled to Bangladesh, an estimated 1.4 million Ro ...
refugees from Myanmar arrived in
Cox's Bazar District Cox's Bazar District () is a district in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh. It is named after Cox's Bazar town. It is located south of Chittagong. Cox's Bazar is also known by the names ''Panowa'' ("yellow flower") and ''Palongkee''. T ...
, amounting to 725,000 in October 2018; the resulting
Kutupalong refugee camp Kutupalong refugee camp () is the world's largest refugee camp. It is located in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, and is inhabited mostly by Rohingya refugees who fled from ethnic and religious persecution in neighboring Myanmar. It is one of ...
became the largest refugee camp in the world. On 14 May 2020, the first confirmed case of
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was detected among the 860,000 refugees who lived in Cox's Bazar district. In March 2021, a fire at the refugee camp left 15 dead and some 400 missing and displaced more than 45,000 mostly Rohingya refugees. Additionally, the government is constructing 268 kilometers of roads to enhance rural connectivity in the region. This initiative includes building 40 new cyclone shelters, a relief administration and distribution center, and other facilities to bolster disaster resilience and support local populations. In 2023 Bangladesh evacuated over 50,000 people in Cox's Bazar to safe shelters as Cyclone Mocha approached. During the protest of 2024, around 10,000 tourists were stuck in Cox's Bazar, who were later transported by plane and army patrol.


Geography and climate

Cox's Bazar is located south of the divisional headquarter city of
Chittagong Chittagong ( ), officially Chattogram, (, ) (, or ) is the second-largest city in Bangladesh. Home to the Port of Chittagong, it is the busiest port in Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. The city is also the business capital of Bangladesh. It ...
. Cox's Bazar town has an area of , and is bounded by Bakkhali River on the north and East,
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in the West, and Jhilwanj Union in the south. The beach in Cox's Bazar has a gentle slope and with a length of and is one of the longest natural sea beaches in the world Cox's Bazar lies on a coastal plain in the southeastern corner of Bangladesh. From above, the plain appears to bulge out into the Bay of Bengal. Along the shore is an extensive area of beach and
dune A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, flat ...
s. Most of the city is built on a
floodplain A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of the enclosing valley, and experience flooding during periods of high Discharge (hydrolog ...
that is lower in elevation than the dunes, making it more susceptible to flooding due to
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s and
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s. The Cox's Bazar coastal plain was formed after the sea reached its present level around 6,500 years ago, with the area of the current floodplain originally forming a sediment sink that has since been gradually filled in by the Bakkhali river as well as smaller streams coming down from the hills. The climate of Bangladesh is mostly determined by its location in the
tropical monsoon climate An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate subtype that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ' ...
region: high temperatures, heavy rainfall, and generally excessive humidity, with distinct seasonal variations. The climate of Cox's Bazar is mostly similar to the rest of the country, but with an even wetter southwest monsoon season due to its coastal location. The annual average temperature in Cox's Bazar is a maximum of and a minimum of . The average annual rainfall is .


Demographics

According to the 2022 Bangladesh census, Cox's Bazar city had a population of 417,354 According to the
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, Cox's Bazar had 31,431 households and a population of 167,477. 38,042 (22.71%) were under 10 years of age. Cox's Bazar had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 55.72%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 776 females per 1000 males. Ethnic population is 1,686 (1.01%), of which Rakhine were 1,447.


Educational institutions

1962: Cox's Bazar Government College is the earliest secondary and bachelor's degree offering college founded in Cox's Bazar.
1985: Cox's Bazar Law College is the first profession-based college founded in this district.
1991: Cox's Bazar Govt. Women's College is the first Secondary and bachelor's degree offering college in this district solely for women.
2006: Cox's Bazar Commerce College is the First College only for
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,
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and Business Management.
2008: Cox's Bazar Medical College is the first medical college in this district.
2013: Cox's bazar international university is the first private university founded in this district. The motto of the university is "Enlightening Tomorrow". Other colleges in this area: Cox's Bazar Polytechnic Institute, Cox's Bazar Technical School and College, Nursing & Midwifery College, Cox's Bazar, Cox's Bazar City College, Cox's Bazar DC College, Uttaran Model College Cox's Bazar, Cox's Bazar Harvard International College, BKSP RAMU Cox's Bazar, Ramu Cantonment Public School & College, Ramu Government College, Ukhiya Degree College, Women's College Ukhiya, Teknaf Government College, Moin Uddin Memorial College Nelah Teknaf, and many more. High schools: Cox's Bazar Govt. High School, Cox's Bazar Govt. Girl's High School, Cox's Bazar Model High School, Bheola Manik Char High School, Ramu Cantonment English School, Ramu Khizari Govt. High School, Biam Laboratory School and College, Kishalaya Model High School, Chakaria korak biddyapith, Chakaria Govt. High School, Palong Model High School, Shilkhali High School, Pekua, Ukhiya Govt. High School, Nheela High School, Poura Preparatory High School. *Sheikh Hasina Joarianala Girls High School, Joarianala, Ramu,Cox's bazar.


Economy and development

The major economic activity in Cox's Bazar is tourism. A number of hotels, guest houses, and motels have been built in the city and coastal region, and many people are involved in the service industry. Oysters, snails, pearls and their ornaments are very popular with tourists and people are involved in the transportation business for tourists. People are involved in fishing and collecting seafood and sea products for their livelihood. Cox's Bazar is one of the few major spots for aquaculture in Bangladesh. Along with
Khulna Khulna (, ) is the third-largest city in Bangladesh, after Dhaka and Chittagong. It is the administrative centre of the Khulna District and the Khulna Division. It is the divisional centre of 10 districts of the division. Khulna is also the seco ...
, it is considered a major source of revenue from foreign exchanges. Besides a mix of
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, marine and inland fishing and salt production are other industrial sources that play important roles in the national economy. In April 2007, as Bangladesh was connected to the submarine cable network as a member of the SEA-ME-WE-4 Consortium, Cox's Bazar was selected as the landing station of the submarine cable.


Transport


Road

The N110 is the national highway that connects the city with country's capital and largest city Dhaka as well as with many other parts of the country via N1. Z1132 works as the alternative gateway from the Eidgaon part of the N1. Travelling by bus to Cox's Bazar from
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generally takes about 9–12 hours depending on the traffic. In , two open-top buses for tourists were launched, travelling from Laboni Point to Sabrang in
Teknaf Teknaf () is a municipality of Teknaf Upazila of Cox's Bazar District in south-eastern Bangladesh. It forms the southernmost point in mainland Bangladesh ( St. Martin's Island is the southernmost point). The name of the region comes from the Naf ...
via Marine Drive.


Airport

The city of Cox's Bazar is served by Cox's Bazar International Airport, located northwest of the city. It is one of four Bangladesh's international airports. The main airlines serving the airport are Biman Bangladesh Airlines, US-Bangla Airlines, Novoair and Regent Airways. In November 2020, Biman Bangladesh Airlines started flights between Sylhet and Cox's Bazar, which was the first direct flight between two cities without any connecting flight from Dhaka. Cox's Bazar Airport is in the process of being upgraded by July 15, 2025 to an
international airport An international airport is an airport with customs and border control facilities enabling passengers to travel between countries. International airports are usually larger than domestic airports, and feature longer runways and have faciliti ...
in order to attract more tourists. This will make it the fourth international airport in Bangladesh.


Rail

The Cox's Bazar railway station is the main railway station of the district, providing trains on the Chittagong–Cox's Bazar line operated by the state-run
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. This station also provides trains that run from Dhaka, such as the Cox's Bazaar Express. On 11 November 2023, Prime Minister
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inaugurated the Cox's Bazar railway station. The station was opened to the public on 1 December 2023.


Sea

Nuniarchara has a jetty port for transport by sea.


Tourism

* Cox's Bazar Beach: The beach in Cox's Bazar is the main attraction of the town with an unbroken length of also termed the "longest natural unbroken sea beach" in the world. There are several 3 stars and 5 star hotels provide the exclusive beachside area with accessories for the tourist. Visitors in other hotels visit Laboni beach which is the area of the beach closest to the town. Other than the beach there are several places of interest near the town which can easily be visited from the town center. * Himchari National Park : Himchari is located just south of the Cox's Bazar town. It consists of lush tropical rain forest, grasslands and trees, and features a number of waterfalls, the biggest of which cascades down toward the sandy, sun-drenched beach. The National Park was established in 1980 by the government of Bangladesh as a conservation area for research, education, and recreation. Once it was the stomping grounds of herds of
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. It is still home to a limited number of these mammals. *Aggmeda Khyang: a large Buddhist monastery, and a place revered by around 400,000 Buddhist people of Cox's Bazar; and the
Chittagong Hill Tracts The Chittagong Hill Tracts (), often shortened to simply the Hill Tracts and abbreviated to CHT, refers to the three hilly districts within the Chittagong Division in southeastern Bangladesh, bordering India and Myanmar (Burma) in the east: Kh ...
. The main sanctuary is posted on a series of round timber columns. It has a prayer chamber and an assembly hall along with a repository of large and small bronze Buddha images and a number of old manuscripts. *
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: about from Cox's Bazar, is a village with a sizeable Buddhist population. The village sells
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and homemade cigars. There are monasteries, khyangs and pagodas containing images of Buddha in bronze, gold and other metals with precious stones. One of the temples, on the bank of the Baghkhali River, houses relics and Burmese handicrafts, and also a large bronze statue of Buddha measuring thirteen feet high which rests on a six feet high pedestal. Weavers ply their trade in open workshops and craftsmen make handmade cigars in their pagoda like houses. * Dulhazra Safari Park: Dulhazra Safari Park is the first Safari Park in Bangladesh. It was developed on an undulating landscape of around 2,224 acres (9.00 km2) of area at Chakaria Upazila in Cox's Bazar District. The nature of the forest is tropical evergreen and rich with Garjan, Boilam, Telsur, and Chapalish along with herbs, shrubs, and creepers. Safari Park is a declared protected area where the animals are kept in a fairly large area with natural environment and visitors can easily see the animal whenever they visit by bus, jeep or on foot. This park was established on the basis of South Asian model. This safari park is an extension of an animal sanctuary located along the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar road about from Cox's Bazar town. The sanctuary itself protects a large number of wild elephants which are native to the area. In the safari park, there are domesticated elephants which are available for a ride. Other animal attractions include lions, Bengal tigers, Crocodiles, Bears, Chitals and a variety of birds and monkeys. The only aquarium in Bangladesh is in Cox's Bazar. Attractions also include parasailing, water biking, beach biking, horse riding, Cox Carnival circus show, Daria Nagar Ecopark, Cox's Bazar Development Authority, numerous architectural attractions, Shishu Parks and numerous photogenic sites. The largest safari park in the country, Dulhazara Safari Park, is nearby. There is a forest reserve, Naf Tourism Park, which also has a cable car planned. * Radiant Fish World: Radiant Fish World is a sea aquarium. * Cox's Bazar–Teknaf Marine Drive: Its the road that goes to Teknaf from Cox's Bazar. There is a sea on one side and hill on the other. In 2013, the Bangladesh government formed the Tourist Police unit to protect local and foreign tourists better, as well as to look after the nature and wildlife in the tourist spots of Cox's Bazar.


Gallery

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See also

* Cox's Bazar Sadar Upazila * List of lighthouses in Bangladesh * Mermaid Beach Resort


References


External links

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