Bandarban

Bandarban is a small town in Chittagong Division in southeastern Bangladesh and the headquarters of Bandarban District. Its name is Bengali for forest of monkeys. The town stands on the Sangu River and is run as a municipality, and the encyclopedia article places it in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. According to the 2022 Bangladesh census Bandarban city had a population of 54,450 and a literacy rate of 85.99 percent. The town is ethnically mixed: the census counted 11,997 people, about 22 percent of residents, as belonging to ethnic groups other than Bengali, among them 7,272 Marma, 981 Tripura and 400 Mru, with 3,344 others, so that hill peoples and Bengalis live side by side in the same urban area.