This article is within the scope of WikiProject Bangladesh, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Bangladesh on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BangladeshWikipedia:WikiProject BangladeshTemplate:WikiProject BangladeshBangladesh articles
Extend, add an infobox and a map of New Eskaton to
New Eskaton.
This article is written in
Bangladeshi English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, analyse, defence) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other
varieties of English. According to the
relevant style guide, this should not be changed without
broad consensus.
Ranking of divisions
is this ranking necessary in this manner? Rather, a sortable table with important data (population, area, districts, upazillas, town, cities) of each divisions might be added. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Nafsadh (
talk •
contribs)
15:39, 29 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Division Headquarters or Capital?
Bangladesh government do not refer to its district and division heads as capital, but the terms are headquarters:
The eponymous Upazilla is called Sadar (সদর). e.g. Tangail Sadar Upazilla in Tangail district
The district administrative offices are called জেলা সদর - District Headquarters
The divisional administrative offices are called বিভাগীয় সদর - Divisional Headquarters
In most Wikipedia articles about these uses the word: capital, but it should not be so.
Thus, I am inviting contributors to comment. --» nafSadhdidsay19:18, 22 August 2014 (UTC)reply
A sadar is a district administrative center, like a
county seat or a
county town (an upazila/sub-district town is not a sadar, but rather like a
civil parish or
township).
Now, any city which is an official seat of administration can be termed a capital. In the case of Bangladesh's divisions, the cities which host their administrative headquarters should certainly be termed as divisional capitals. In all cases, these cities are the largest urban, commercial and industrial centers of their divisions. They preside over territories with millions in population.--
Rainmaker23 (
talk)
22:20, 22 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Sadar has two meaning, per se, (1) district admin center, and (2) the seat (town/upazilla) of the aforementioned
Capital usually associates with state or province. Bangladesh have a unitary governing system. Government documents do not use capital to refer any place other than Dhaka.
Use of the word capital has a connotation that divisions enjoy provincial status, which it do not. Moreover, in practice, division simply function as a group of districts rather than a real layer. The capital (Dhaka) interacts more frequently with district officials than the division officials.
"Any city which is an official seat of administration can be termed a capital." - ridiculous rationale. It's like telling that "any person who belongs to the species Homo sapiens can be called a
primate." Wikipedia does not operate on what can be, it runs on is. I don't thnik anyone tried to call them capitals instead of headquarters before Rainmaker did. No use continuing this ridiculous discussion.
Aditya(
talk •
contribs)04:47, 24 August 2014 (UTC)reply
In Bangladesh; no other administrative area or office is called a capital except
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Bangladesh do not follow a
Federal government system. It is better to use the official terms to avoid confusion. --
Rossi101 (
talk)
20:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)Rossi101reply
External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 3 external links on
Divisions of Bangladesh. Please take a moment to review
my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit
this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{
Sourcecheck}}).
YAn editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.
If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with
this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with
this tool.