Laksam

Laksam is a city in eastern Bangladesh, on the banks of the Dakatia River, and the headquarters of Laksam Upazila in Comilla District of Chittagong Division. Its municipality is governed as a paurashava. The 2022 Bangladesh census counted 95,087 people, up from 70,632 at the 2011 census, and literacy among residents aged seven and over rose from 60.31 percent in 2011 to 82.32 percent in 2022. In 2011 the town had 14,079 households, about 24 percent of its people were under ten years of age, and there were 1,014 females for every thousand males. The article illustrates the town with a photograph of the house of Nawab Faizunnesa.