Named after British district collector Nisbet, who supported the craft from 1830, shatranji weaving spread across Rangpur district and was declared a Geographical Indication (GI) product in 2021; today roughly 50,000 people, 95% of them women, are involved in its production.
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A 150-foot granite monument at Savar honoring the millions who died in Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War.
The oldest museum in Bangladesh, holding a remarkable collection of ancient Bengal sculpture and manuscripts.
A historic settlement popularly cited in Bangladeshi media as one of the largest villages in Asia.