Bandarban is Bangladesh's most mountainous and least populated district — high ridges, the winding Sangu river and the country's highest ground, in the south-east of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. This profile covers its Indigenous peoples, its peaks and lakes, its great golden temple, and a trekking economy shaped by three years of security closures.
Founded in the 15th century by Khan Jahan Ali, a Sultanate general venerated as a saint, the Mosque City of Bagerhat — then Khalifatabad — is a planned brick city of mosques, tanks and roads on the edge of the Sundarbans, crowned by the great Sixty Dome Mosque and inscribed by UNESCO in 1985.
Read MoreOn Bangladesh's southern coast, Kuakata is one of the few beaches in the world where the sun both rises and sets over the same sea. Behind its 18 kilometres of sand stands an older story — Rakhine settlers who crossed from Arakan in 1784, dug the wells that named the place, and built its Buddhist temples — and a modern one, of tourism growth on a shoreline being steadily cut away by erosion.
Read MoreSajek Valley, a ridge-top settlement of Lushai, Pangkhua, Tripura and Chakma villages in Rangamati's Baghaichhari upazila, rose from one of Bangladesh's most inaccessible corners to its most famous hill destination in a single decade. This profile traces the valley's land, river and people, its tourism boom, the devastating fire of February 2025, and its closure in the autumn of 2026.
Read MoreSomapura Mahavihara at Paharpur: the great Pala-era Buddhist monastery in Naogaon — 177 monks' cells, a cruciform shrine, Atisa's legacy, UNESCO status.
Read MoreCox's Bazar: Asia's longest natural beach, Captain Cox's 1799 refugee mission, the shutki yards of Nazirar Tek, tourism's strain and a new airport project.
Read MoreBarind Tract: Bangladesh's largest Pleistocene terrace — a dry red-clay upland turned rice bowl by deep tubewells, now facing a groundwater reckoning.
Read MoreSaint Martin's Island — Narikel Jinjira — is Bangladesh's only coral island: its geology, wildlife, protected status and uncertain future in the Bay of Bengal.
Read MoreRivers of Bangladesh: the Padma, Jamuna and Meghna that built the world's largest delta — and the erosion, pollution and water disputes reshaping it today.
Read MoreHaor Basin guide: 373 seasonal wetlands of north-east Bangladesh — Tanguar and Hakaluki haors, boro rice, mother fisheries, migratory birds and flash floods.
Read MoreChittagong Hill Tracts guide: Bangladesh's hill region of lakes and twelve peoples — Kaptai, the 1997 Peace Accord, Boishabi and life in the hills today.
Read MoreSundarbans is the world's largest mangrove forest, shared by Bangladesh and India — home to Bengal tigers, river dolphins, honey collectors and ancient tides.
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