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Titas
Titas
Upazila
	Coordinates: 23°36′N 90°46′E / 23.600°N 90.767°E
Country	Bangladesh
Division	Chittagong
District	Comilla
Area
• Total	125.74 km2 (48.55 sq mi)
Population (2022)
• Total	203,953
• Density	1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+6 (BST)
Website	titas.comilla.gov.bd

Titas (Bengali: তিতাস) is an upazila of Comilla District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.^[2] It has a rich heritage of culture and tradition. This upazilla was formerly under Daudkandi upazilla. In 2005, it has been made a entirely new upazilla.

History

Titas was created in 2004. It split with nine Unions from Daudkandi Upazila. The name Titas named after the river Titas. Then minister and local MP Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain proposed the name.^{[citation needed]}

Location

It has Homna Upazila of Comilla District on the north, Daudkandi Upazila on the south, Muradnagar Upazila on the east and Meghna Upazila on the west.^{[citation needed]}

Demographics

Religions in Titas Upazila (2022)^[3]
Religion			Percent
Islam			96.78%
Hinduism			3.21%

According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, Titas Upazila had 36,068 households and a population of 184,617. 47,650 (25.81%) were under 10 years of age. Meghna has a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 43.04%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 1120 females per 1000 males. 3,532 (1.91%) lived in urban areas.^[4]^[5]

Administration

Titas Upazila is divided into nine union parishads:Balorampur, Jagatpur, Kalakandi, Karikandi, Majidpur, Narayandia, Satani, Vitikandi, Zearkandi. The union parishads are subdivided into 61 mauzas and 138 villages.^[6]

Notable residents

Atiqul Islam - Mayor, Dhaka North City Corporation
Md Mainul Islam - former chief, Border Guards Bangladesh
Abdul Matin- Deputy Secretary at Ministary of Public Administration / BCS1986 Batch (Ex APS to ex PM Begum Khaleda Zia)
Suman Chandra Das - Entrepreneur, Son of Sunil Chandra Das
Md. Tafazzul Islam - 17th Chief Justice of Bangladesh.^[7]
Ferdous Ahmed - Bangladeshi Film Actor.
Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah - Former Senior Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Managing Director of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation(PKSF) .