Chakaria

Chakaria is a town in southeastern Bangladesh, on the Matamuhuri River. It is the headquarters of Chakaria Upazila in Cox's Bazar District of Chittagong Division. The 2022 Bangladesh census counted 94,397 people in the city, up from 72,669 at the 2011 census, with a literacy rate of 84.06 percent in 2022 compared with 61.25 percent in 2011. At the 2011 census the town had 13,163 households, about 27 percent of residents were under ten years old, and the recorded ethnic minority population was 837 people. The figures show a town that grew by nearly a third between the two censuses.