Sitakunda
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Sitakunda or Sitakunda Town, is an administrative center and the sole municipality (Pourashabha) of Sitakunda Upazila
Sitakunda Upazila
Sitakunda is an upazila, or administrative unit, in the Chittagong District of Bangladesh. It includes one urban settlement, the Sitakunda Town, and 10 unions, the lowest of administrative units in Bangladesh. It is one of the 14 upazilas, the second tier of administrative units, of the Chittagong...

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Administration

The 28.63 km² Sitakunda Town has 9 wards divided into 22 mahalla
Mahalla
A mahalla is an urban division in Uzbekistan. Historically, mahallas were autonomous social institutions built around familial ties and Islamic rituals. Before the establishment of the Soviet rule in Uzbekistan, Mahallas fulfilled local self-government functions connecting private sphere with...

s, and a population of 36,650 distributed to 6,914 units of households (average household size 5.3), including 18,662 men and 17,988 women (Male:Female ratio 104:100). The most notable mahallas of the town are Yakubnagar, Nunachara, Mohadebpur, Sobanbagh, Bhuiyan Para, Chowdhury Para (also known as Premtala), Moulvi Para, Amirabad, Edilpur and Shibpur. Shafiul Alam is the mayor of the town, gaining a landslide win over his nearest contender M Abul Kalam Azad in the 2008 mayoral election. Sitakunda is famous for the Chandranath Temple
Chandranath Temple
Chandranath Temple located on top of the Chandranath hill is a famous Shakti Peeth located near Sitakunda in Bangladesh where as per Hindu sacred texts the right arm of Goddess Sati fell...

 and Buddhist temple. There is a hot water spring at a distance of 5 km to the north of Sitakunda (Chittagong district).

History

To reduce the population pressure on Chittagong, Sitakunda has been developed as a satellite town
Satellite town
A satellite town or satellite city is a concept in urban planning that refers essentially to smaller metropolitan areas which are located somewhat near to, but are mostly independent of, larger metropolitan areas.-Characteristics:...

 of the city, as well as a zone selected for industrial development along with Bhatiari. The municipality is growing fast as an urban center, especially in and around Sitakunda and Mahadebpur mouzas where the Office of the Upazila Nirbahi Officer and other major Government offices, boys' high school and college are located, but public services and facilities like electricity, drinking water, drainage and garbage disposal are still under-provided.

Geography

The town, situated on an unbroken flat land of alluvial deposits that lies below the level of high tide, is free from tidal effects and flash floods of the area due to an embankment.
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