Chittagong , City (pop., 2001 prelim.: city, 2,199,590; metro. area, 3,361,244), chief Indian Ocean port, Bangladesh. It is the country’s second most important industrial city, with jute mills, engineering works, and a large oil refinery. Known to Arab sailors by the 10th century ad, it was conquered by Muslims in the 14th century and occupied by the governor of Bengal in the 17th century. Ceded to Britain’s East India Company in 1760, it was constituted a municipality in 1864. Damaged in the conflict between India and Pakistan in 1971, its port facilities were rebuilt. It is the site of the University of Chittagong (founded 1966).
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Bangladesh, country of South Asia, located in the delta of the Padma (Ganges [Ganga]) and Jamuna (Brahmaputra) rivers in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent. The riverine country of Bangladesh (“Land of the Bengals”) is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, and its