Daulatpur, Manikganj
Encyclopedia
Daulatpur is a town
in Manikgonj District in the Dhaka Division of central Bangladesh
. The town is best known for being hit by the deadliest tornado
in world history, the Daulatpur-Salturia Tornado, which killed hundreds of people.
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...
in Manikgonj District in the Dhaka Division of central Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
. The town is best known for being hit by the deadliest tornado
Tornado
A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...
in world history, the Daulatpur-Salturia Tornado, which killed hundreds of people.