4363
Kanungopara
Postal code 4363 covers Kanungopara, Boalkhali, Chittagong District, Chittagong.
- Division
- Chittagong
- District
- Chittagong
- Upazila / Area
- Boalkhali
- Coordinates
- 22.4075, 91.9783
About Boalkhali
Boalkhali (Bengali: বোয়ালখালী) is an upazila of Chattogram District in Chattogram Division, Bangladesh.
Geography
Boalkhali is located at 22.3778°N 91.9208°E / 22.3778; 91.9208. It had 44108 households and its total area is 126.46 km2.
According to the 2001 Bangladesh Census, there were 36,588 households.
Demographics
According to the 2022 Bangladeshi census, Boalkhali Upazila had 58,014 households and a population of 258,688. 8.60% of the population were under 5 years of age. Boalkhali had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 83.45%: 85.32% for males and 81.69% for females, and a sex ratio of 95.72 males for every 100 females. 131,116 (50.68%) lived in urban areas.
🟩 Muslim majority 🟧 Hindu majority
As of the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, Boalkhali upazila had 44,108 households and a population of 223,125. 46,730 (20.94%) were under 10 years of age. Boalkhali had an average literacy rate of 58.90%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 1042 females per 1000 males. 31,206 (13.99%) of the population lived in urban areas.
As of the 2001 Bangladesh census, the population was 201,590, comprising 104,601 males and 96,989 females.
Boalkhali had 9 Unions, 31 Mauza and 30 villages and the literacy rate was 71.8%.
As of the 1991 Bangladesh census, Boalkhali has a population of 195607. Males constitute 51.75% of the population, and females 48.25%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 98116. Boalkhali has an average literacy rate of 48.5% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate.
Notable residents
Abdul Wahid Bengali (1850-1905), theologian, teacher and social reformer
Binod Bihari Chowdhury, revolutionary, was born at Uttar Bhurshi village in 1911.
Kalpana Datta, revolutionary, was born at Sreepur village in 1913.
Shefali Ghosh, singer, was born at Kanungo Para village circa 1941.
Rama Chowdhury - War heroine of Bangladesh Liberation war.
Chinmoy Kumar Ghosh - Philosopher, Peace Meditations at the United Nations 1931
Sultan Ahmed - Politician
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