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Tongi

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

Tongi
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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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Islamic 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
  2. 02
    National 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
  3. 03
    Baitur 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
  4. 04
    Bangladesh 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
  5. 05
    North 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
  6. 06
    Bangladesh 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
  7. 07
    American 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
  8. 08
    Asian 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
  9. 09
    International 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
  10. 10
    Milestone 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

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.

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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 → Tongi
    186 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · ৳750–1,010
  • Chattogram (Chittagong) → Tongi
    227 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · ৳860–1,150
  • Kolkata → Tongi
    255 km · quickest by road, 5h 10m · ₹2,080–2,600
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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.

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

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    203 km
  2. 02
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    216 km
  3. 03
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    346 km
  4. 04
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    420 km
  5. 05
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    435 km

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Around it

Next door to Tongi

Tongi is 1 km from Tungi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.