Rangpur, a town of Bengal, on the Ghaghath, an arm of the Brahmaputra, and 110 miles SE. of Darjiling. It is the capital of a district in a great well-watered, fertile, well-tilled plain of sandy loam. Pop. 14,500.
Rangpur
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 577
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