The Sylhet Division is located in the North-Eastern region of Bangladesh. Within this division is a picturesque district called Maulvi Bazar. It covers an area of approximately two thousand seven hundred square kilometers and has an extremely dense population of more than 1.3 million residents. There are three main rivers that flow through this district that provide the farming regions of Maulvi Bazar with water, but it also result in occasional flooding.
Maulvi Bazar was declared the sub-division of South Sylhet in 1882, but its name was later changed to Moulvi Bazaar after it was occupied by Pakistan. It was liberated on 1971. As most of Maulvi Bazar is an agricultural region, they export a range of produce, such as agar, lemons, bamboo, cane, pineapples, tea, jackfruit, rubber and mangoes. It boasts one the of the largest tea gardens found in the world, and has over a hundred and fifty tea gardens within its borders. To diminish the devastation that flooding brings to this district when flooding occurs, a new project that cost millions was undertaken by Maulvi Bazar to install a flood defense system, which it the only one of its kind in Bangladesh.
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