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Cox’s Bazar, town, southeastern Bangladesh. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal about 60 miles (100 km) south of Chittagong.

The town, constituted a municipality in 1869, was named for Hiram Cox, who supervised the settlement there of Arakanese refugees from conquest by Myanmar (Burma) in 1799. Ramu, 10 miles (16 km) to the east, is the site of a historic Buddhist temple. With a long unbroken beach and a small port, Cox’s Bazar is a popular tourist resort, connected by road, rail, and air with Chittagong. Major industries in addition to tourism include fish processing, salt production, ice making, printing, and the milling of rice, flour, and wood. Garment production and weaving, woodworking, and metalworking are prominent cottage industries. Pop. (2001) 51,918; (2011) 167,477.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Virginia Gorlinski.