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Chittagong

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Chit·ta·gong  (cht-gông, -gng)
A city of southeast Bangladesh near the Bay of Bengal. It is a major port and industrial center. Population: 2,200,000.
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Noun1.Chittagong - a port city and industrial center in southeastern Bangladesh on the Bay of Bengal
Bangla Desh, Bangladesh, East Pakistan, People's Republic of Bangladesh - a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971


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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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