Tongi
Tongi is a major township in Gazipur, Bangladesh, with a population of 350,000.

Tongi is a major township in Gazipur, Bangladesh, with a population of 350,000. It hosts the Biswa Ijtema and features a BSCIC industrial area, which produces BDT 1500 crore of industrial products annually, and marks the northern border of Dhaka since 1786. The Tongi Shahid Smrity high School compound is a mass burial site of the genocide committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War. It is part of Greater Dhaka.
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Worth seeing in and around Tongi
10 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.
- 01Islamic University of Technology
Islamic University of Technology is an international engineering technological research university located in Gazipur, Bangladesh. IUT offers undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering and technical education.
6.2 km · Bangladeshi Islamic International University · Wikipedia - 02National University
National University is a public collegiate university of Bangladesh that was established in 1992 by an Act of Parliament as an affiliating university of the country to impart graduate and post-graduate level education to students through its affiliated colleges, schools and professional institutions throughout the country. The number of colleges under the NU is 2,257.
6.7 km · public university in Bangladesh · Wikipedia - 03Baitur Rauf
The Bait Ur Rouf Mosque is a distinctive urban mosque located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Designed by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum and completed in 2012, it has been called a refuge of spirituality in urban Dhaka and received recognition for its beautiful use of natural light and for challenging the status quo of traditional mosque design.
2.1 km · mosque in Fayedabad, Dhaka, Bangladesh · Wikipedia - 04Bangladesh Maritime University
Bangladesh Maritime University is a public university in Dhaka, Bangladesh, specializing in maritime studies. It was established in 2013.
9.4 km · Public maritime university in Bangladesh · Wikipedia - 05North South University
North South University is a private research university in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in 1992.
9.6 km · private university in Bangladesh · Wikipedia - 06Bangladesh Open University
The Bangladesh Open University Bengali: বাংলাদেশ উন্মুক্ত বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, established on 21 October 1992, is a public university with its main campus in Board Bazar, Gazipur District, Dhaka Division. It is the 8th largest university in the world according to enrollment.
6.5 km · public university in Bangladesh · Wikipedia - 07American International University-Bangladesh
American International University-Bangladesh commonly known by its acronym AIUB, is a private research university in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This university was established in 1994.
8.8 km · private university in Bangladesh · Wikipedia - 08Asian University of Bangladesh
Asian University of Bangladesh or AUB is a private university in Bangladesh. It was established on 4 January 1996 by the Private University Act 1992.
3.6 km · private university of Bangladesh · Wikipedia - 09International University of Business Agriculture and Technology
International University of Business Agriculture and Technology was established in 1991 by M Alimullah Miyan and was subsequently recognized under the Private University Act of 1992. It is the first private university established in Bangladesh.
2.3 km · private university in Bangladesh · Wikipedia - 10Milestone College
Milestone School & College is a Bengali and English-version, co-educational private school and college in Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
3.1 km · Bangladeshi School and College · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tongi
- Airports
- Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 6 km · Osmany (ZYL), 189 km · Shah Amanat (CGP), 233 km
- Stations
- Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, 6.2 km · Airport railway station, 5.4 km · Uttara Center metro station, 6.4 km · Uttara North metro station, 5.5 km · Pallabi metro station, 9.4 km
- Sylhet → Tongi186 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · ৳750–1,010
- Chattogram (Chittagong) → Tongi227 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · ৳860–1,150
- Kolkata → Tongi255 km · quickest by road, 5h 10m · ₹2,080–2,600
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No local-transport research exists yet for Tongi
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 Tongi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Tongi
Tongi is 1 km from Tungi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Gazipur City CorporationCity corporations of Bangladesh1.5 km
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- UttarkhanNeighbourhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh4.1 km
- Bashundhara Residential Areaprivate suburb in Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh9.4 km