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District of Bangladesh in Chittagong Division

Chandpur District

Chandpur District is a district in Chittagong Division, Bangladesh.

Chandpur District
Chandpur District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Chandpur District is a district in Chittagong Division, Bangladesh. Established on 15 February 1984, it is famously known as the "Home of Hilsa" due to its vast production and trade of Hilsa fish.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chandpur District

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Bakharpur Masjid

    Bakharpur Mosque, also known as the Bakharpur Jame Mosque, is a historic mosque located in the village of Bakharpur in Sadar Upazila, Chandpur District, Bangladesh. It is locally referred to as the Ghaibi Mosque.

    3.5 km · A Mosque in Bangladesh · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chandpur Stadium

    Chandpur Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Chandpur, Bangladesh.

    3.6 km · multi-purpose stadium in Chandpur, Bangladesh · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Chandpur Government College

    Chandpur Government College is a public college in Chandpur, Bangladesh and is one of the oldest colleges in Chandpur as well as in Chittagong Division. The college offers higher secondary education as well as Honours degree and master's degree programs, which are affiliated with the National University of Bangladesh.

    3 km · old and traditional educational institute of Chandpur district of Bangladesh · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Chandpur Science and Technology University

    Chandpur Science & Technology University is a public university of Bangladesh. It was established in 2021 by the Parliament of Bangladesh act 2019.

    3.4 km · Bangladeshi public university · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Chandpur District

Airports
Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 74 km · Shah Amanat (CGP), 161 km · Osmany (ZYL), 231 km
  • Dhaka → Chandpur District
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · ৳310–415
  • Chattogram (Chittagong) → Chandpur District
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · ৳580–770
  • Sylhet → Chandpur District
    213 km · quickest by road, 4h 47m · ৳870–1,170
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chandpur District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chandpur District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inChandpur can be reached by ferry in 3 to 4 hours from Dhaka and 5 to 6 hours from Barisal (the local English word for ferry is "launch").

From Wikivoyage: Chandpur, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    255 km
  2. 02
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    260 km
  3. 03
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    315 km
  4. 04
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    441 km
  5. 05
    BaganMM

    12 ways of moving, 50 sources

    491 km

If you know how people move in Chandpur District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Chandpur District

Chandpur District is 60 km from Dhaka, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Chandpurhuman settlement in Bangladesh2.2 km
  • Bahariahuman settlement in Bangladesh3.7 km