Chittagong (Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম, Chôţţogram) is a business and industry hub, and a anchorage city, in southeastern Bangladesh and the basic of an eponymous commune and division. Built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River, the city-limits is home to Bangladesh's busiest anchorage and has a citizenry of over 5.5 million, authoritative it the additional better city-limits in the country.
A trading column back the 9th century, Chittagong has a multicultural ancestry of Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist traditions, as the aftereffect of altered after-effects of settlements throughout the Middle Ages and able-bodied into the alpha of the British Raj. A few locations of Chittagong were developed in the aboriginal 20th aeon beneath the British to board a railway hub. The city-limits aswell became a focal point for advocate activities adjoin the British, conspicuously the armed insurgence led by Surya Sen in 1930. It was aswell an important aggressive abject and accumulation point for Allied armament during the Burma Campaign in Apple War II. After the allotment of India in 1947, Chittagong became allotment of East Pakistan. It was again that several key afar areas were included into the city-limits of Chittagong, including Agrabad, a avant-garde bartering centre today. Chittagong regained bulge as an important investment destination and sea anchorage in the eastern allotment of a anew absolute country. In 1971, as East Pakistanis rebelled adjoin West Pakistan’s abnegation to acquire after-effects of the 1970 Pakistan General Election, the acknowledgment of East Pakistan's alienation into Bangladesh was appear in Chittagong. The city-limits went assimilate attestant atrocities and argosy blockades during the liberation war that followed.[6] Chittagong's development has been heavily afflicted by apathy by the government, and absorption of the basic has taken assessment to the cities development and growth.[7]
Today, Chittagong is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, with an alarming GDP of $25 Billion.[8][9][10] A above bartering and automated centre, the city-limits aswell has a globally aggressive appropriate bread-and-butter zone.[11] With the Anchorage of Chittagong getting broadcast and developed[12], the Dhaka–Chittagong Artery getting upgraded into 4 laned disconnected highway[13], and Shah Amanat International Airport getting upgraded, bounded neighbours of Bangladesh accept eyed Chittagong as a approaching bounded alteration hub. The anchorage city-limits is apparent as acute to the bread-and-butter development of landlocked southern Asia including Northeast India, Bhutan, Nepal and locations of Southern China and Burma.[14][15]
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