Bandarban: The Mountain District of the Chittagong Hill Tracts

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.