Kumarkhali is an Upazila of Kushtia District

Kushtia District

Kushtia, Kushtia district or Kushtia Zila is a district in the Khulna administrative division of western Bangladesh. Kushtia has existed as a separate district since the partition of India. Prior to that, Kushtia was a part of Nadia District under Bengal Province of British India. Kushtia was home...

 in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

. It is famous for the Shelaidaha area, where the poet Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...

  spent a considerable time of his youth.

Geography

Kumarkhali is located at 23.8542°N 89.2417°E . It has 48387 units of house hold and total area 265.89 km².

Demographics

,the Bangladesh census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

 listed Kumarkhali with a population of 269008. Males constitute are 51.77% of the population, and females 48.23%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 133845. Kumarkhali has an average literacy rate of 24.9% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate.

External links

• Article, from Banglapedia
  Banglapedia
  Banglapedia, or the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, is the first Bangladeshi encyclopedia. It is available in print, CD-ROM format and online, in both Bangla and English. The print version comprises ten 500-page volumes...
  
  
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