Atwari Upazila
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Atwari is an Upazila of Panchagarh District
Panchagarh District
Panchagarh is a district of Rangpur division in the extreme northern part of Bangladesh with an area of 1404.63 square km, is bounded on three sides by 288 km long Indian border, having Darjeeling district on the north, Jalpaiguri and Kuchbihar districts on the northeast, west Dinajpur and...

 in the Division of Rangpur, 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

Atwari is located at 26.3083°N 88.4583°E . It has 20941 units of house hold and total area 209.92 km².

Demographics

As of the 1991 Bangladesh census
1991 Bangladesh census
In 1991, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh. They recorded data from all of the districts and upazilas and main cities in Bangladesh including statistical data on population size, households, sex and age distribution, marital status, economically active...

, Atwari has a population of 103906. Males constitute are 51.42% of the population, and females 48.58%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 52469. Atwari has an average literacy rate of 37.8% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate.

Administrative

Atwari has 6 Unions/Wards, 61 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 64 villages.
6 Unions are 1. Mirzapur 2. Aloakhoa 3. Toria. 4. Dhamor. 5. Radhanagar. 6. Barlampur.
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