Gouripur

Gouripur is a town in northern Bangladesh and the headquarters of Gouripur Upazila in Mymensingh District, Mymensingh Division. It is 150 kilometres from Dhaka, 20 kilometres from Mymensingh and 90 kilometres from the border with the Indian state of Meghalaya. An important railway station on the Narayanganj-Bahadurabad Ghat Line serves the town, which is surrounded by several small valleys between high forests. The temperature ranges from 12 to 33 degrees Celsius and the annual rainfall averages 2,174 millimetres. Its best known building is Gouripur House, an almost hundred-year-old haveli built by the local zamindar Brajendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury, whose family patronised Indian classical music.