Tetulia Upazila
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Tetulia 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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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...

, Tetulia has a population of 86760. Males constitute are 51.52% of the population, and females 48.48%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 42021. Tetulia has an average literacy rate of 25.5% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate.

Administrative

Tetulia has 7 Unions, 36 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 242 villages. The post code of tetulia is 5030.

Economy

The cultivation of tea, orange and pineapple is abundant in Tetulia. It is located on the Indian border with Darjiling. A group name Kazi & Kazi has already introduced tea planting.

See also

  • Upazilas of Bangladesh
    Upazilas of Bangladesh
    ||The districts of Bangladesh are divided into subdistricts called Upazila Parishad , or Thana . Upazilas are similar to the county subdivisions found in some Western countries....

  • Districts of Bangladesh
    Districts of Bangladesh
    The divisions of Bangladesh are divided into 64 districts, or zila . The districts are further subdivided into 493 sub-districts, or upazila ....

  • Divisions of Bangladesh
    Divisions of Bangladesh
    ||Bangladesh is divided into seven major administrative regions called divisions . Each division is named after the major city within its jurisdiction that serves as the administrative capital of that division:...

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