Chuadanga

Chuadanga is a town in western Bangladesh and the headquarters of both Chuadanga Sadar Upazila and Chuadanga District, which the article places in Khulna Division. It lies on the Mathabhanga river. The article records that Chuadanga was the first capital of Bangladesh, that it was a sub-district of Kushtia district before it became a district in 1984, and that the first railway station in Bangladesh was established in the town in 1862, so that the town is connected to the rest of the country by rail and road. The 2022 census counted 97,532 people in the town, up from 85,786 at the 2011 census. Long-established schools include Victoria Jubilee Government High School, founded in 1880, and Chuadanga Government Girls' High School, dating from 1914; Chuadanga Government College was founded in 1962.