Paiyapathar

Paiyapathar or Paia Pathar (Bengali: পৈয়াপাথর, পইয়াপাথর) is a village in Paschim Nabipur Union, Muradnagar Upazila, Comilla District, Bangladesh. It is 114 kilometres (71 mi) from Dhaka.

The name Paiyapathar is a compound of two Bengali words: paiya (meaning touched) and pathor(meaning stones), to thus mean "touched stones". According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Paiyapathar had 540 households and a population of 2,740.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Population Census 2011: Comilla Table C-01" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 13, 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2014.

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