Maulvibazar district
4 parliamentary seats · 7 upazilas. The current member for each seat, according to Parliament's database.
About Maulvibazar district
Moulvibazar District, formerly South Sylhet Subdivision is the southeastern district of Sylhet Division in northeastern Bangladesh, named after the town of Moulvibazar. It is bordered by the Indian states of Tripura and Assam to the south and east, respectively; by the Bangladeshi districts of Habiganj to the west and Sylhet to the north.
The name
The district, Moulvibazar is named after the town which serves as its headquarter. The name is derived from the two words, Moulvi and bazar, meaning 'Market of the Moulvi'. 'Moulvi' is an Islamic honorific title and 'bazar' is the Bengali word for market or township.
History
Copper plates have been found from 930 AD in Paschimbagh, Tengubazar Mandir, Rajnagar and one of Raja Marundanath from the 11th century in Kalapur, Srimangal. The district was also part of the ancient Kamarupa kingdom. It is suggested that the area was inhabited by Buddhists and Hindus as evidence from inscriptions suggests there was an ancient university in Panchgaon, Rajnagar. The terrain was headquarters of the ancient Ita Kingdom founded by Raja Bhanu Narayan and its capital was in the villages of Bhumiura and Eolatoli. Other regions included Chandrapur or Chandrarajya which is modern-day Moulvibazar Sadar.
Geography
Moulvibazar is in Sylhet, a district to the North-East of Bangladesh. It is 2,707 km2 in area, and has a population of 1.38 million. It is situated between 24.10 degree 24.35 degree north latitude and between 90.35 degree and 91.20-degree east longitude. It is surrounded by Sylhet District in the north, Habiganj District in the west and Indian states of Assam and Tripura in the east and south respectively.
People
According to the 2022 Census of Bangladesh, Moulvibazar District had a population of 2,123,447 with an average 4.80 people per household. Approximately, 14.00% of the inhabitants lived in urban areas. The population density was 759 people per km2. 19.21% of the population was under 10 years of age.
Economy
The main exports of Moulvibazar are bamboo, tea, pineapple, cane, jackfruit, oranges, agar, rubber, mangoes and lemons. Ninety-one of Bangladesh's 153 tea gardens are located in Moulvibazar. The area is also home to the three largest tea gardens in the world. Pineapples from the Sreemangal area are famous for their flavour and natural sweetness. Srimangal is known as the 'tea capital of Bangladesh' due to the high frequency of tea plantations found there.
Places to see
The District contains the highest amount of tea plantations in the country. Srimangal is known as the Tea Capital of Bangladesh and is the only place where one can have the original 7-layered tea. Moulvibazar also has notable religious sites such as the dargah and mosque of Shah Mustafa, a companion of Shah Jalal; as well as the Jiladpur Mosque and Goyghor Mosque, two ancient mosques from the 15th century.
Source: Wikipedia, Moulvibazar District · CC BY-SA 4.0
Notable people of Maulvibazar
- Altaf Husain educationist, journalist
- Syed Mujtaba Ali, writer, scholar and linguist
- Abdul Muntaquim Chaudhury MNA, MP
- Tommy Miah, restaurateur and celebrity chef
- Shafiqur Rahman, physician and Amir of the Bangladesh Jamaat · e-Islami
- Saifur Rahman, longest serving Finance Minister of Bangladesh
- Doly Begum, Canadian politician
- Surendra Kumar Sinha, Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Shanaj Ahmed, Cricketer for Sylhet Division
- Dwijen Sharma, Botanist, Environmentalist and science writer
- Mahbubur Rahman Sufil, footballer and captain of Arambagh KS
- Syed Mohsin Ali, former Social Welfare Minister of Bangladesh
Map of the district
Boundaries from the Election Commission's description of the seats, drawn on the maps of OpenStreetMap (upazilas), OCHA (city corporations) and geoBoundaries (city wards; BBS, 2015); approximate. Background map from OpenStreetMap. 4 seats; tap an area to open that seat's page.
Seats and their members
Maulvibazar is a district in Sylhet division with 4 seats in Parliament: Maulvibazar-1 (Barlekha and Juri upazilas), Maulvibazar-2 (Kulaura upazila), Maulvibazar-3 (Moulvibazar Sadar and Rajnagar upazilas) and Maulvibazar-4 (Sreemangal and Kamalganj upazilas). In the 13th Parliament the seats are all held by the BNP. In the 12th Parliament (2024) the seats were all held by the Awami League.
Nasir Uddin AhmedMaulvibazar-1, BNP
Md Showkatul IslamMaulvibazar-2, BNP
Nasser RahmanMaulvibazar-3, BNP
Md Mujibur Rahman ChoudhuryMaulvibazar-4, BNP
Source: Parliament of Bangladesh | Updated 24 October 2026