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Chittagong

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Chittagong

City and port in Bangladesh, 16 km/10 mi from the mouth of the Karnaphuli River, on the Bay of Bengal; population (2001 est) 1,640,000. It has a well-sited natural harbour and its trade increased considerably, at the expense of Calcutta (now Kolkata), after Pakistan achieved independence in 1947. After Dhaka, Chittagong is the leading industrial centre of Bangladesh, and industries include cotton and jute mills, iron and steel, oil refining, engineering, and chemicals.


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Yunus was a professor of economics at Chittagong University in 1974, when he and his students went on a field trip to a poor village.
In the December 2005 report End of Life: The Human Cost of Breaking Ships, Greenpeace and the international Federation of Human Rights Leagues estimated that the number of accidental deaths in ship-breaking yards of Alang in India and Chittagong in Bangladesh could exceed 100 every year.
It currently owns and operates 12 base stations across Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet.
 
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