Geographical View Cox's Bazar
Often termed as the world's longest beach,Cox's Bazar has yet to become a major tourist destination in Asia.Cox's Bazar District has an area of 2491.86 square km. It is located at 21°35' N 92°01' E and is bounded by Chittagong District on the north, Bay of Bengal
in the south, Bandarban District
on the east, and the Bay of Bengal on the west. Major rivers include
Matamuhuri,
Bakkhali, Reju Khal, Naf River, Maheshkhali channel and
Kutubdia channel. The area of the city of Cox's Bazar is 6.85 square km
The town with an area of 6.85 square km, and bounded by Bakkhali River on the north and East, Bay of Bengal in the West,
and Jhilwanj Union in the south.
History of Cox's Bazar
The greater Chittagong breadth including Cox's Bazar was beneath the
aphorism of Arakan Kings from the aboriginal 9th aeon until its
acquisition by
the Mughals in 1666 AD.When the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja was casual
through the arresting breadth of the present day Cox's Bazar on his way
to Arakan,
he was admiring to the breathtaking and arresting adorableness of
the place. He allowable his armament to affected there. His aggregation
of one thousand
palanquins chock-full there for some time.A abode called
Dulahazara, acceptation "one thousand palanquins," still exists in the
area. Afterwards the Mughals,
the abode came beneath the ascendancy of the Tipras and the
Arakanese,followed by the Portuguese and again the British.The name
Cox's Bazar originated
from the name of a British East India Company officer, Captain
Hiram Cox who was appointed as the Superintendent of Palonki(today's
Cox's Bazar) beginning
afterwards Warren Hastings became the Governor of Bengal afterward
the British East India Company Act in 1773.Captain Cox was abnormally
mobilised to accord
with a aeon continued battle amid Arakan refugees & bounded
Rakhains at Palonki. The Captain fabricated cogent progress in
rehabilitation of refugees in
the area, but had died (in 1799) afore he could accomplishment his
work. To admire his role in rehabilitation plan a market / exchange was
accustomed and was
called afterwards him as Cox's Bazar (market of Cox). Cox's Bazar
than was aboriginal accustomed in 1854 and a city was constituted in
1869.
After the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Rebellion of 1857) in 1857, the
British East India Company was awful criticised and questioned on
altruistic grounds, specially
for its Opium barter cartel over the Indian Sub-Continent. However,
afterwards its dissolution on 1 January 1874, all of the company's
assets including its
Armed Armament were acquired by the British Crown. Afterwards this
celebrated yield over, Cox's Bazar was declared a commune of the Bengal
Province beneath
the British Crown.
After the end of British aphorism in 1947, Cox's Bazar remained as a
allotment of East Pakistan. Captain Advocate Fazlul Karim, the
aboriginal Chairman
(after ability from the British) of Cox's Bazar City accustomed the
Tamarisk Forest forth the bank to draw day-tripper absorption in this
boondocks and
aswell to assure the bank from flat waves. He aswell donated
abounding of his father-in-law's and his own acreage for establishing a
Public Library and
a Boondocks Hall for the town. He was aggressive to body Cox's
Bazar as a day-tripper atom afterwards seeing beaches of Bombay and
Karachi, and one of
the antecedents in developing Cox's Bazar as such. He founded a
Maternity Hospital, the Stadium and the arising arrangement by accretion
grants from the
Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation through correspondence.
Mr. T. H. Matthews, the arch of the Dacca Engineering College
(1949~1954) was his
acquaintance who had helped him in doing this. Architect Chandi
Charan Das was the government civilian architect who had formed on all
these projects.
In 1959 the city was angry into a town committee. In 1961 the
bygone Geological Survey of Pakistan accomplished analysis of
radioactive minerals like
monazite about the Cox's Bazar sea-beach breadth and a amount
in the south, Bandarban District
on the east, and the Bay of Bengal on the west. Major rivers include
Matamuhuri,
Bakkhali, Reju Khal, Naf River, Maheshkhali channel and
Kutubdia channel. The area of the city of Cox's Bazar is 6.85 square km
The town with an area of 6.85 square km, and bounded by Bakkhali River on the north and East, Bay of Bengal in the West,
and Jhilwanj Union in the south.
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