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Bangladesh is a delta country: the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna join on the way to the Bay of Bengal, and almost the whole land is flat and river-cut. The division is the unit that tells you which side of those rivers a round is on, and there are only eight of them.
The divisions (bibhag) of Bangladesh, the first tier of the country. Seven are named for their capital city, and the eighth, Mymensingh, was cut out of Dhaka in 2015, which is why older maps show seven. Dhaka the division and Dhaka the district are two different answers, and the same goes for Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet and Barishal.
The map is lopsided in a useful way. Chattogram runs down the whole south east, along the hills and the coast to the border with Myanmar. The Padma and the Jamuna split the rest: Rajshahi and Rangpur lie west and north of the Jamuna, Dhaka and Mymensingh sit at the centre, and Khulna and Barishal fill the tidal south west, including the Sundarbans mangroves.
The groups are not an official classification. Bangladesh has no tier between the division and the country, so the quiz cuts the eight into the north west, the centre, the east and the south west to let you drill it a piece at a time. The divisions are the Bangladesh Districts grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Chattogram is the largest division, the whole south east of the country. It holds the port city of Chattogram, the hill districts of Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban, and Cox's Bazar with the longest beach in the country.
Mymensingh was made a division in 2015 from the northern districts of Dhaka: Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Netrakona and Sherpur. A map from before that year draws them inside Dhaka, so it is worth knowing where the old line ran.
Eight. Mymensingh became the eighth in 2015.
Bangladesh has no administrative tier between the divisions and the country, so the quiz groups the eight into four parts of the map by position.
The districts, which number 64. They are their own quiz.
The tier below this one is Bangladesh Districts. For another country at this level, see Guatemala Departments.
