Cumilla

Cumilla is a district in southeastern Bangladesh, part of the Chittagong Division. The district’s main urban center, Cumilla city, lies near the border with India’s state and is connected to it through the Bibirbazar–Sonaura land port.
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  • Type: City with 408,000 residents
  • Description: Major city in Bangladesh
  • Also known as: Comilla” and “Kumillā
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dhormo Sagor and Cumilla Export Processing Zone.

Dharmasagar is a man-made water body in Comilla, Bangladesh. The pond was dug by the Tripura king Dharma Manikya I in 1458. Sachin Dev Burman and Kazi Nazrul Islam were here during their time in Comilla.

The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority is an agency of the Government of Bangladesh and is administered under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Office. Its objective is to manage the various export processing zones in Bangladesh.

Cumilla

Latitude
23.4629° or 23° 27′ 46″ north
Longitude
91.1828° or 91° 10′ 58″ east
Population
408,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
CLA
United Nations Location Code
BD CLA
Open location code
7MMHF57M+54
Open­Street­Map ID
node 268417180
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1185186
Wiki­data ID
Q1006296
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Cumilla” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: كملا
  • Arabic: كُمِلَّا
  • Arabic: كُمِلَّة
  • Arabic: كوميلا
  • Asturian: Cumilla
  • Basque: Cumilla
  • Bengali: কুমিল্লা
  • Catalan: Comilla
  • Catalan: Comillah
  • Catalan: Kumilla
  • Cebuano: Comilla
  • Chinese: 库米拉
  • Chinese: 庫米拉
  • Chinese: 庫米拉市
  • Czech: Kumilla
  • Danish: Comilla
  • Dutch: Comilla
  • Egyptian Arabic: كُمِلَّا
  • Egyptian Arabic: كُمِلَّة
  • Egyptian Arabic: كوميلا
  • Egyptian Arabic: كوميلّا
  • Esperanto: Komilla
  • Finnish: Comilla
  • French: Comilla
  • French: Cumilla
  • German: Comilla
  • German: Kumilla
  • Greek: Κομίλα
  • Greek: Κομίλλα
  • Greek: Κουμίλα
  • Greek: Κουμίλλα
  • Gujarati: કોમિલા
  • Hebrew: קומילה
  • Hindi: कुमिल्ला
  • Hindi: कोमिला
  • Hindi: कोमिल्ला
  • Indonesian: Comilla
  • Italian: Comilla
  • Italian: Cumilla
  • Japanese: クミッラ
  • Kannada: ಕೊಮಿಲ್ಲ
  • Kannada: ಕೊಮಿಲ್ಲಾ
  • Korean: 코밀라
  • Korean: 코밀리아
  • Latvian: Komila
  • Lithuanian: Comilla
  • Lithuanian: Komila
  • Lithuanian: Komilla
  • Malay: Comilla
  • Malayalam: കോമില്ല
  • Marathi: कोमिल्ला
  • Nepali: कुमिल्ला
  • Nepali: कोमिल्ला
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Comilla
  • Norwegian: Comilla
  • Persian: کامیلا
  • Polish: Kumilla
  • Romanian: Comilla
  • Russian: Комилла
  • Russian: Комилле
  • Silesian: Cumilla
  • Sinhala: කොමිල
  • Spanish: Comilla
  • Spanish: Cumilla
  • Sundanese: Comilla
  • Swedish: Comilla
  • Swedish: Komilla
  • Tamil: கொமிலா நகரம்
  • Tamil: கோமில்லா
  • Telugu: కొమిల్ల
  • Thai: กุมิลลา
  • Thai: คูมิลลา
  • Turkish: Comilla
  • Ukrainian: Комілла
  • Urdu: کومیلا
  • Vietnamese: Comilla
  • Waray (Philippines): Comilla
  • Western Panjabi: کومیلا

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cumilla”. Photo: shemul13, CC BY-SA 4.0.