Thanchi Upazila
Upazila of Bandarban District
Thanchi (Bengali: থানচি) is an upazila of Bandarban District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Geography
Thanchi is located at 21.7861°N 92.4278°E / 21.7861; 92.4278. It has 4,872 households and a total area of 1020.82 km2. Thanchi upazila is bordered by Ruma upazila and Rangamati district to the north, Lama and Alikadam upazilas to the west, Rakhine State of Myanmar to the south and Chin State of Myanmar to the east.
At the boundary with Ali Kadam Upazila, the 35-kilometre-long (22 mi) Alikadam-Thanchi Road ascends hill Dim Pahar, making it one of the highest motorable roads in Bangladesh.
Demographics
According to the 2022 Bangladeshi census, Thanchi Upazila had 6,296 households and a population of 29,790. 11.95% of the population were under 5 years of age. Thanchi had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 50.68%: 60.80% for males and 39.16% for females, and a sex ratio of 111.37 males for every 100 females. 10,253 (34.42%) lived in urban areas.
Ethnicity and religion
🟨Buddhist majority 🟦 Christian majority
As of the 2022 Bangladeshi census, Thanchi upazila had a population of 29,790.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Thanchi Upazila” as upazila of Bandarban District. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as upazila of Bandarban District. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3349108. Authority coordinates are 21.786, 92.428. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1020 and 2022.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Thanchi Upazila” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.