Tangail

Tangail is a city and the seat of Tangail District in central Bangladesh, in Dhaka Division. It lies on the Louhajang River on a low floodplain near the Jamuna River, south of the high Madhupur tract, at an average elevation of about 14 metres. The city covers 35.22 square kilometres and is divided into 18 wards and 64 mahallas. The 2022 census counted 212,887 residents in the Tangail Paurashava. Tangail grew as a local trading centre from the early nineteenth century, became a district in 1969 when it was separated from Mymensingh, and is remembered for the Tangail Airdrop of December 1971, a parachute operation during the war of liberation. Its climate is humid subtropical, with a wet monsoon season and a dry, warm winter.