Moulvibazar

Moulvibazar is a town in north-eastern Bangladesh just south of Sylhet, on the banks of the Manu River, and the capital of Moulvibazar Sadar Upazila and Moulvibazar District. In 1771 Moulvi Syed Qudratullah established a bazaar there on his zamindari land, which became the headquarters of the South Sylhet subdivision in 1882. Moulvibazar Government High School opened in 1891, the Khilafat Movement of 1921 reached the town, and the Saifur Rahman Stadium, a multi-use arena for 15,000 people, was established in 2005. The pourashava is made up of nine wards. The 2022 census counted 68,303 residents with a literacy rate of 86.13 percent, up from 56,537 at the 2011 census.