Teknaf
Teknaf Upazila is the southern-most city on the mainland in Bangladesh, on the narrow strip running along the coast of Myanmar. It's a dusty featureless frontier town - this is remote Bangladesh and it feels like it.Photo: RockyMasum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: RockyMasum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 334,000 residents
- Description: upazila in Chittagong Division, Bangladesh
- Also known as: “Teknaf Upazila”
Teknaf
- Categories: upazila of Bangladesh and locality
- Location: Cox’s Bazar District, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
20.8685° or 20° 52′ 6″ northLongitude
92.2987° or 92° 17′ 56″ eastPopulation
334,000Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)Open location code
7MGJV79X+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 5219895021OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
7646382Wikidata ID
Q3348523
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Teknaf” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تكناف”
- Bengali: “টেকনাফ উপজেলা”
- Bengali: “টেকনাফ”
- Bishnupriya: “টেকনাফ উপজিলা”
- Cebuano: “Teknaf (subdistrito sa Bangladesh)”
- Cebuano: “Teknaf”
- Chinese: “Teknaf Tìn”
- Chinese: “代格納夫烏帕齊拉”
- Chinese: “代格纳夫”
- Chinese: “代格纳夫乌帕齐拉”
- French: “Teknaf”
- German: “Teknaf Upazila”
- Hindi: “टेकनाफ उपज़िला”
- Italian: “Teknaf”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Teknaf Tìn”
- Persian: “تکناف”
- Spanish: “Teknaf”
- Swedish: “Teknaf”
- Ukrainian: “Текнаф”
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