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Chittagong
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Chittagong , city (1991 pop. 2,348,428), capital of Chittagong division, SE Bangladesh, on the Karnafuli River...processing, and shipbuilding industries. Power for Chittagong's industry is supplied by the Karnaphuli hydroelectric...
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Yunus, Muhammad
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1940, in the Bangladeshi seaport of Chittagong, when the city was still part of India...Bathua before moving into the city of Chittagong, where their father opened a jewelry...1955. Education Yunus first attended Chittagong Collegiate School, then Chittagong...
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Chakmas
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...area of eastern Bangladesh known as the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Their name was first used...India. The people who lived in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region expected to become...government to try to win independence for the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Guerrillas attacked government...
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Bangladesh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the nation's other major city is Chittagong. Land and People A humid, low-lying...and Meghna rivers. Except for the Chittagong Hills along the Myanmar border, most...several universities, including ones at Chittagong, Dhaka, Mymensingh , and Rajshahi...
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Grameen Bank
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...when Mohammed Yunus, a professor in Chittagong University, loaned the equivalent of...June 28, 1940, in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh. His father was a goldsmith...the head of the economics program at Chittagong University. From this campus, he studied...
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Muhammad Yunus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Muhammad Yunus 1940-, Bangladeshi economist and banker, b. Chittagong (then in British India), grad. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville...from Pakistan in 1972, and became an economics professor at Chittagong Univ. In 1976 he began offering small loans, using his own...
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Bangladeshi Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...also several hundred thousand tribal people who live in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Although Bangladesh is primarily a Muslim country...capital of the country is Dhaka, and another major city is Chittagong. About 70 percent of the population live in rural areas and...
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Sylhet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Sylhet, which has manufactures in tea, matches, vegetable oil, and canes, is also a center of Islamic culture and the site of several tombs of Muslim holy men. In the city are eight colleges affiliated with the Univ. of Chittagong.
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Ganges
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...it has been the site of land reclamation projects. This low-lying area has repeatedly suffered great devastation from cyclones and coastal flooding. Kolkata , India, and Chittagong , Bangladesh, are the delta's main seaports.
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Bay of Bengal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...destructive cyclone storms have caused great loss of life along the bay's northern coast. The main ports are Vishakhapatnam, Paradip, Chennai (Madras), and Kolkata (Calcutta), India; Chittagong, Bangladesh; and Sittwe, Myanmar.
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