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Background of Rowangchari Upazilla

 

How is the naming of the upazila?

 
     Where the Rakhine Rhyme merged into the Taracha Canal, a settlement of the Marma tribes was formed at the mouth of the Rakhine Rhythm long ago. As the town was built on the banks of the Rakhine Rhyme, the locals called the town Rakhine Wah, according to the custom of the Marma tribes. "Rakhing Wah" means the mouth of the Rakhine rhyme. Over time, Bengalis came here from the neighboring Chittagong district for trade and commerce. The market developed here on a small scale. Notably, the word "Rakhine or Rakhine" means the Arakan Province or Arakanese in the state of Burma or Myanmar. In the regional language of Chittagong, Arakan is called "Roang". That is why the local Bengalis called Rakhing Wah as Roangchhari and it became popular over time.

     Roangchhari upazila covers an area of ​​443 sq km just east of Bandarban district headquarters. The total population of this upazila is 22,629 ... People belong to the hilly region. Most of them are zoom farmers. Although most of the land of the upazila is hilly, the area under cultivable land is about 3,963 hectares. It produces an average of 4,091 MT per year.

     The area was established as an administrative thana on 25 October 1983 and was upgraded to an upazila on 15 March 1983.