Tongi
Tongi (Bengali: টঙ্গী) is a major township in Gazipur, Bangladesh, with a population of 350,000. It hosts the Biswa Ijtema and features a BSCIC industrial area, which produces BDT 1500 crore of industrial products annually, and marks the northern border of Dhaka since 1786. Tongi Shahid Smrity high School compound is mass burial site of the genocide in Liberation War of Bangladesh.
Tongi
টঙ্গী | |
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A road in Tongi | |
Tongi Location in Dhaka Division Tongi Location in Bangladesh | |
| Coordinates: 23.90°N 90.41°E | |
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Division | Dhaka Division |
| District | Gazipur District |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor–Council |
| • Body | Gazipur City Corporation |
| Area | |
| • Total | 32.07 km2 (12.38 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 350,000 |
| • Rank | 36th |
| Time zone | UTC+6 (Bangladesh Time) |
| National Dialing Code | +880 |
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