Matlab is an Upazila of Chandpur District

Chandpur District

Chandpur is a district in east-central Bangladesh. It is located at the mouth of the Meghna River. It is a part of the Chittagong Division. The town of Chandpur is terminus of a metre gauge branch of Bangladesh Railways. It also has a water terminal situated here.-Geography:Chandpur district has a...

 in the Division of Chittagong, 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...

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Geography

Matlab is located at 23.3500°N 90.7083°E . It has 76,266 registered housing units and a total land area 409.22 km².

Demographics

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...

, Matlab had a population of 445,607. Males constitute 49.31% of the population, females 50.69%. Matlab has an average literacy rate of 36.1% (7+ years), the national average being 32.4%.

Administration

Chairman:MA Shukkur Patwary

Vice Chairman: Shafiqul Islam Sagor

Woman Vice Chairman: Lok-khi Raani Daash (Independent)

Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO):