Gafargoan Mymensingh | A Bangladeshi Village | ব্রহ্মপুত্র নদ | Brahmaputra River |Sk Rayhan Akash | Goforgao
Gafargaon is an Upazila of Mymensingh District in the Division of Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Gafargaon is located at 24.4167°N 90.5500°E. It has 73,130 households and total area 401.16 km². According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Gafargaon had a population of 430,746. Males constituted 48.90% of the population and females 51.10%. Muslims formed 98.49% of the population, Hindus 1.43% and others 0.08%. Gafargaon had a literacy rate of 49.26% for the population 7 years and above. Gafargaon has a municipality, 2 police stations, 15 Unions/Wards, 203 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 218 villages. The police stations (thana) are Gafargaon and Pagla. Pagla thana was established in 2012. Come & Visit Goforgoan. You will love it.
The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet, India and Bangladesh. It is the ninth largest river in the world by discharge, and the 15th longest.
With its origin in the Manasarovar Lake region, near the Mount Kailash, located on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County of Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo River. it flows along southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges (including the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon) and into Arunachal Pradesh (India). It flows southwest through the Assam Valley as Brahmaputra and south through Bangladesh as the Jamuna (not to be mistaken with Yamuna of India). In the vast Ganges Delta, it merges with the Padma, the popular name of the river Ganges in Bangladesh, and finally, after merging with Padma, it becomes the Meghna and from here, it flows as Meghna river before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
About 4,696 km (2,918 mi) long, the Brahmaputra is an important river for irrigation and transportation in the region. The average depth of the river is 140 m (450 ft) and maximum depth is 370 m (1,200 ft). The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in the Spring when the Himalayan snow melts. The average discharge of the river is about 19,800 m3/s (700,000 cu ft/s), and floods reach about 100,000 m3/s (3,500,000 cu ft/s). It is a classic example of a braided river and is highly susceptible to channel migration and avulsion. It is also one of the few rivers in the world that exhibits a tidal bore. It is navigable for most of its length.
The river drains the Himalayan east of the Indo-Nepal border, south-central portion of the Tibetan plateau above the Ganga basin, south-eastern portion of Tibet, the Patkai-Bum hills, the northern slopes of the Meghalaya hills, the Assam plains, and the northern portion of Bangladesh. The basin, especially south of Tibet, is characterized by high levels of rainfall. Kangchenjunga (8,586 m) is the only peak above 8,000 m, hence is the highest point within the Brahmaputra basin.
The Brahmaputra's upper course was long unknown, and its identity with the Yarlung Tsangpo was only established by exploration in 1884-86. This river is often called the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra river.
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