Rajshahi Bangladesh

Rajshahi

(Bengali: রাজশাহী; historically Rampur Boalia; nicknamed Silk town) is a metropolitan town in Bangladesh and a first-rate city, commercial and educational centre of North Bengal. it's far the executive seat[note 1] of Rajshahi division and Rajshahi District. placed at the north bank of the Padma River, close to the Bangladesh-India border, the city has a population of over 763,952 residents.[3] The metropolis is surrounded by using satellite tv for pc cities like Katakhali & Nowhata, which together construct an urban agglomeration of approximately 1 million population.

contemporary Rajshahi lies inside the historic location of Pundravardhana. the muse of the town dates to 1634, in line with epigraphic facts on the mausoleum of Sufi saint Hazrat Shah Makhdum. The vicinity hosted a Dutch settlement inside the 18th century.[4] The Rajshahi municipality turned into constituted for the duration of the British Raj in 1876. It was a divisional capital of the Bengal Presidency.

Rajshahi is an vital administrative, academic, cultural & enterprise centre in Bangladesh today. it's miles a historic middle of silk production. Varendra research Museum, that is oldest of its type in Bangladesh is placed in the metropolis. The city is home to the Rajshahi university- which is the 1/3 oldest college in Bangladesh after Dhaka university and Chittagong university, Rajshahi medical college- 2d oldest clinical college in erstwhile East Pakistan. The college of Rajshahi is the second one oldest and one in all the most important public universities in the united states of america. Rajshahi Engineering college,now RUET changed into the second one engineering university set up inside the then East Pakistan in 1964 (the first one was Ahsanullah Engineering university: now BUET).[5] the pinnacle office of Rajshahi Agricultural development bank and Barind Multipurpose improvement Authority (BMDA) is located in the metropolis. Rajshahi is served via the Shah Makhdum Airport.