Lalmonirhat District is a District, situated at the northern border of Bangladesh. It is a part of the Rangpur Division. Lalmonirhat mahakuma was established as a district on 1 February 1984. To the north of Lalmonirhat lie Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri districts of West Bengal; to the south lies Rangpur, to the east lie Kurigram and Cooch Behar; and to the west of lie Rangpur and Nilphamari District. The international border line of Lalmonirhat district is 281.6 km long.
Nilphamari District is a district in Northern Bangladesh. It is a part of the Rangpur Division. It is about 400 kilometers to the northwest of the capital Dhaka. It has an area of 1,580.85 square kilometres (610.37 sq mi). Nilphamari is bounded by Rangpur and Lalmonirhat in east, Rangpur and Dinajpur in south, Dinajpur and Panchagarh in west, Cooch Behar of India in north. The headquarters are in Nilphamari, but the largest city is Saidpur.
Rangpur District is a district in Northern Bangladesh. It is a part of the Rangpur Division.
Saidpur is a city of Nilphamari district in Rangpur Division of Bangladesh. The city has become a very important communication hub for adjoining major district headquarters. Saidpur Airport is one of the domestic airports in Bangladesh. The Syedpur Railway Workshop, established in 1870, is the largest in Bangladesh and was the major railway workshop for Assam-Bengal railway. Historically, the city has a large Urdu-speaking community with close ties to Bihar.
Parbatipur is an upazila (sub-district) of the Dinajpur District in northern Bangladesh, part of the Rangpur Division. It is home to the only active coal mine in Bangladesh, the Barapukuria Coal Mine.
Domar is an upazila of Nilphamari District in the Division of Rangpur, Bangladesh.
Kishoreganj is an upazila of Nilphamari District in the Division of Rangpur, Bangladesh.
Nilphamari Sadar is an upazila of Nilphamari District in the Division of Rangpur, Bangladesh. Nilphamari Sadar thana was established in 1870. It was under Daroani thana before 1870. It gradually turned into an Upazilla in 1984.
Saidpur is an upazila of Nilphamari District in the Division of Rangpur, Bangladesh. Saidpur thana, later turned into an upazila, was established in 1915. Before 1870, Saidpur was a Bazar under Daroani thana of Rangpur district. It was under Nilphamari Sadar thana of Nilphamari Mohokuma between 1870 and 1915.
Badarganj is an Upazila of Rangpur District in the Division of Rangpur, Bangladesh.
Badarganj is named after the mystic-saint Hazrat Badaruddin Shah. His tomb is situated in the middle of the town. After the conquests of Bengal, Turk Commander Ikhtiyar Uddin Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji stopped over at a field at Mansinghapur, Madai Khamar during his invasion of Tibet in 1203 AD to feed his horses. After that event, the field was named 'Bakhtiyar Danga'.
Gangachara is the northernmost upazila of Bangladesh's Rangpur District, located in the Rangpur Division.
Kaunia is an upazila of Rangpur District in the Division of Rangpur, Bangladesh.
Rangpur Sadar is an Upazila of Rangpur District in the Division of Rangpur, Bangladesh. Its headquarters are in Rangpur.
Mithapukur is an upazila of Rangpur District in the division of Rangpur, Bangladesh. The upazila is situated in the middle of Rangpur, surrounded by Rangpur Sadar to the north, Pirganj to the south, Badarganj and Phulbari to the west and Pirgachha and Sundarganj to the east. Mithapukur is famous for being the birthplace of Begum Rokeya and its sweet mango Harivanga.
Taraganj is an upazila of Rangpur District in the Division of Rangpur, Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board or BREB, is government organization in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is responsible for rural electrification. It is the largest power distribution organization in Bangladesh. BREB has brought all the 461 upazilas on grid under 100% electrification. Major General S M Zia-Ul-Azim is the present chairman of the board.
Rural Power Company Limited is an autonomous government company responsible for rural electrification and power in Bangladesh and is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The Kansat Palli Bidyut protests were a series of protest in Kansat against the Kansat Palli Bidyut Samity which are subsidiaries of Rural Electrification Board that resulted in 13 deaths. The protests ranged from January to April 2006.
Damodarpur Union is a union parishad under Badarganj Upazila, Rangpur District, Rangpur Division, Bangladesh. It covers an area of 32.58 squared kilometres, and had a population of 22,547 as of the 2011 census. There are a total of 8 villages within the union.
Rangpur Rural Electricity Association-1 is one of the 80 rural electricity associations under the Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board, the largest electricity distribution organization in Bangladesh. Rangpur Rural Electricity Association-1 distributes electricity to 3 upazilas of Rangpur district and 2 upazilas of Gaibandha district of Rangpur division. The association was established on 14 January 1982. Its headquarters is located in Shathibari, Mithapukur upazila.
