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Brahmanbaria (ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়া) is a district in east-central Bangladesh.

Administration and demographics
Brahmanbaria District, which was included in Comilla district (formerly Tipura district) was established in 1984. The district has 4 municipalities, 39 wards, 97 mahallas, 9 upazilas, 98 union parishads, 1081 mouzas and 1329 villages.

According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Brahmanbaria District had 538,937 households and a population of 2,840,498.

Subdivisions
Brahmanbaria district is divided into nine Subdivisions (previously known as Thanas or only one Towns) as below:
 * Brahmanbaria Sadar Upazila
 * Ashuganj Upazila
 * Nasirnagar Upazila
 * Nabinagar Upazila
 * Sarail Upazila
 * Kasba Upazila
 * Akhaura Upazila
 * Bancharampur Upazila
 * Bijoynagar Upazila

Parliament constituencies
There are six Jatiyo Shangshad constituencies in Brahmanbaria district. These constituencies and the current Members of Parliament are:
 * National seat no 243 Brahmanbaria-1 (Current MP, Bodruddoza Md. Farhad Hossain)
 * National seat no 244 Brahmanbaria-2 (Current MP, Advocate Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan)
 * National seat no 245 Brahmanbaria-3 (Current MP, R. A. M. Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury)
 * National seat no 246 Brahmanbaria-4 (Current MP, Anisul Huq, Minister of Law)
 * National seat no 247 Brahmanbaria-5 (Current MP, Mohammad Ebadul Karim Bulbul)
 * National seat no 248 Brahmanbaria-6 (Current MP, AB Tajul Islam)

Economy
Brahmanbaria is one of the fastest growing districts in the country. The major industries of Brahmanbaria District have been: agriculture, fishing, power, and natural gas.

This city has the largest railway junction in the country which is Akhaura.

Power and gas
Brahmanbaria's Titas gas is important to Bangladesh. Currently the government is drilling new wells. In some other parts of Brahmanbaria gas was founded. It turned down the price of gas. Many parts of the country people are using gas in many illegal ways. Now the government is trying to solve that issue.

Rail


There are about ten railway stations in the district. The country of India decided to use this district to connect power. The government shipped machines of the Palatana project from Kolkata to Agartala by using the Ashuganj river port on Meghna in Brahmanbaria district. To connect with India, government of both Bangladesh and India is building 15 km railway from Akhaura to Agartala.

Criticism
In 2015 the District of Brahmanbaria, like the rest of Bangladesh, faced problems of road blocks due to political agitation. It became a terrible problem for regional connectivity as it brought a halt to the road and rail transportation. Investors became afraid to make new investments due to this reason. Luckily the situation did not last very long before being resolved. This region also faced with clashing between two groups. In 2015 a man was killed for facing problems between two groups. Former Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Surendra Kumar Sinha had said while he was delivering his speech in Brahmanbaria that smuggling was hurting the national the economy. Gold and dollar are going out of the country, he said.

Geography
Brahmanbaria District is mostly farmland. But within the district many cities can be found. The capital and largest city is Brahmanbaria. Akhaura and Ashuganj ranks also in top three. Prime minister of Bangladesh gave permission to use Ashuganj Port. In addition, Akhaura Station will be connected to Agartala.

History
Brahmanbaria (Sarail) was the birthplace of Isa Khan. A pot of 200 years old coin was founded in District's Akhaura Upazila. There were nearly 500 coins at the Temple of Durga in Mogra Union. The coins contain image of British Queen Elizabeth-I were from 1804, 1814 and 1836. Police said coins was handed over to archaeology department.