Rangpur city

Rangpur (Bengali: রংপুর) is one of the major cities in Bangladesh. It is located in the Rangpur District of the Rajshahi Division in north-western Bangladesh. Earlier it was the headquarter of Greater Rangpur district. Later the Greater Rangpur district was broken down into Rangpur, Kurigram, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat and Gaibandha districts. Rangpur city is the headqarter of Rangpur district. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা, IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit. ... Rangpur is a district in Northern Bangladesh. ... Rajshahi is in Northwestern part of Bangladesh. ... Rangpur is a district in Northern Bangladesh. ... View of the Dharala River in Kurigram. ... Nilphamari is a district in Northern Bangladesh. ... Lalmonirhat is a district in Northern Bangladesh. ... Gaibandha is a district in Northern Bangladesh. ...

Places of Interest:

• RDRS (Rangpur and Dinajpur Rural Service) Bangladesh [1], an NGO in northwest Bangladesh, has a large office and guesthouse/convention center in the town of Rangpur.

Karmicheal College

• Carmichael College is located just a few minutes' drive away from Rangpur city centre. It is one of the biggest institutes (according to area) in northern part of bangladesh. It is famous for its lush green campus.

• Former President Ershad, a Rangpur native, was responsible for many additions to Rangpur. He restored the Tajhat rajbari for use as a courthouse in the 1980's. He also donated land for a zoo with a large park in the center of town. The zoo has a variety of animals, mostly in small British-era style cages. The zoo does have a large aviary, a small monkey cage and an endangered Bengal tiger, in addition to a rhinoceros, lions, a leopard, peacocks, alligators, turtles, spotted deer, and many other animals.

Ershad's home can be found in Sen Para, in the center of town. His another home is situated at Darshana more which is called by "POLLI NEBASH", it is north of Rangpur city, about 5 kilometers away. NGO is an abbreviation or code for: Non-governmental organization Nagoya Airport (IATA code) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one... A guest house is a private home which has been converted for the exclusive use of guest accommodation. ... Exhibition Hall of the Makaryev Fair. ... Ronda, Spain Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Hussein Mohammed Ershad popularly known as Ershad was an ex president of Bangladesh who seized power in a coup. ... Tajhat Rajbari Tajhat is a historical place of Bangladesh, located in Tajhat, Rangpur. ... In most counties in the United States the local trial courts conduct their business in a centrally located courthouse which may also house the offices of the county treasurer, clerk and recorder and assessor. ... Giraffes in Sydneys Taronga Zoo A zoological garden, zoological park, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures and displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. ... An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ... An aviary is a large enclosure for confining birds. ... Black Rhino from Howletts Wild Animal Park For other uses, see Rhinoceros (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) The Lion (Panthera leo) is a mammal of the family Felidae. ... Binomial name Panthera pardus Linnaeus, 1758 Synonyms Felis pardus Linnaeus, 1758 The Leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the four big cats of the genus Panthera. ... Peacock re-directs here; for alternate uses see Peacock (disambiguation). ... This article refers to the large reptile. ... Turtles and terapins may mean: plural of turtle Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Turtles band Turtles band Turtles Music stores See also: Turtle (disambiguation) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Binomial name Axis axis (Erxleben, 1777) The chital (also spelled cheetal) or spotted deer is a large spotted deer which commonly inhabits wooded regions of Sri Lanka and most of India. ...

Tajhat palace

• Just south of the city of Rangpur lies the Tajhat, a former "rajbari" or zamindar's palace. After the end of the British Raj, the building was abandoned and decayed rapidly, although it was used for a few years as a courthouse during the 1980's. In the year 2004, it was largely restored and turned into a museum which hosts an impressive collection of Blackstone Hindu carvings, caligraphic art from the mughal period, other objets d'art and coins from the area on display. Due to lack of funding, the museum is sometimes closed. The entry fee for non-Bangladeshi tourists is 200 taka.

• Rangpur cadet college is a great educational institute in this city which is situated 5 kilometer far from city at Modern more.

• Rangpur Zilla School is another famous school in this region of bangladesh. It gained a high reputation. It is located in the DCer More (DC Square ) of the city.

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Lifestyle

For shopping, there are two large shopping complexes. One is the older "Super Market", a three storied building with a variety of small shops selling everything from soap, shoes and clothes to motorcycles, TVs and fans. There is a more modern building called the Jahaz Company Moore Shopping Complex which has Rangpur's only escalator. At the top of this building is a department store, selling a wide assortment of children's toys, Indian kurtas, shalwar kameezes and saris, and other collectibles. A traditional north Indian style sari. ...

Karupannya is another store on Station Road which sells Rangpur's famous Satranji handloom carpets, which have earned acclaim for their extraordinary aesthetic appeal. The carpets were made in the village of Nishbetganj and were greatly popular in the Mughal period. In fact, it is believed that emperor Akbar used these carpets to adorn his palace in Delhi. The Mughal Empire (alternative spelling Mogul, which is the origin of the word Mogul) of India was founded by Babur in 1526, when he defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last of the Delhi Sultans at the First Battle of Panipat. ...

Karupannya was founded by Shafiqul Alam Selim, who re-established the cottage industry of Satranji at Nishbetganj village. Starting with just five weavers, he has increased to more than 300 weavers today (March 2005) and is now exporting to foreing countries on a small scale. One can purchase a Satranji carpet at the Karupannya showroom in Rangpur or in Banani, Dhaka.

Coordinates: 25°45′N, 89°15′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...