Ulania

Ulania is located at 22.85627°N 90.60899°E / 22.85627; 90.60899 . It has total area 22.50 km². The town is located beside the Sultani River linked from the Meghna river in the north to the Tentulia River in the south. It is bordered by Gobindapur Union in the north east, Bhola Sadar in the south east, Chandpur and Char Ekkaria union in the west, also briefly touched by Dharmaganj River in the north and Tentulia River in the south.

The annual monsoon rains from July to September is both a blessing and a curse for the people of Bangladesh. In 2007, the river Meghna engulfed more than 12,000 acres (49 km²) of land, making almost forty thousand people landless. Not enough has been done to rehabilitate the affected people or stop the erosion, compelling locals to help each other with their limited resources. It's not just the poor who are affected by the floods. In the last 300 years, the feudal landlord (Zamindar) of Ulania of Mehendigonj built an estate of 100 magnificent architectural buildings which are also under the threat of Meghna erosion.

At the 2001 Bangladesh census, Ulania had a population of 36000. Males constituted 18,572 of the population, and females 17,428. Ulania had an average literacy rate of 75% (7+ years), against the national average of 60%.[2]

Ulania Zamindar Bari is a centuries-old landlord palace located in Mehendiganj Upazila

Ulania Zamindar Bari Masjid, established in 1861 by Ulania Zamindar family

Ulania has 13 villages, 13 mouzas, 4 bazars, 2 waterbodies. Every five year the election take place to elect local government heads known as chairman. The lower branch of chairman are called members. Maheb Miah is the current chairman of Ulania Union. He was elected on 23 January 2009 in 9 wards. He has 13 members to work with him in his cabinet in which 9 are male members and 3 are female members. There are 19,605 of total voters in which 10,161 are male and 9,444 are female voters.

The main transport used by the local people to travel one village to another village is rickshaw, bicycle, motorbikes etc. In the main roads people usually use auto rickshaw (known as tempo (Bengali: টেম্পু) by the local people) to travel one place to another place faster. Motorbikes are also used as a term of transport for carrying passengers as well. Since this place is an island – ship, trawlers, speedboats, river liners (known as launch লঞ্চ) are the main transports to travel into various cities. Everyday lonch arrives in Mollikpur port & Sultani port to exchange passengers. Passengers may need to take trawlers (Bengali: ট্রলার) to go to Sultani port because there is no road that will take you to the port.

To make life comfortable, easy and cheerful, Ulania provides many amenities to give a better life and make things entertaining for the local people. People won't need to go to the main town Patarhat to lodge and withdraw their money as it's a common thing of rural areas in Bangladesh. Ulania union provides two banks in the centre of the town – Agrani Bank and Krishi Bank. There is one well equipped government owned hospital and a post-office service as well. There are two huge fields to play cricket, football, volleyball, badminton etc. New movies releases in the cinemas every month to entertain people from different levels. There are two cinemas, called Meghna Cinema Hall and Padma Cinema Hall. Swimming competition also takes place in the Ulania Dighi every year or two.

There are six Coronation schools all over the country, one of which is located in the heart of the town. Some well known literate, columnist, poet, politicians were born in this union.

• College: 1 (non govt.)
• Secondary School: 3 (non govt.)
• Primary School: 10 (govt.), 10 (non govt.)
• Madrasa: 3 (non govt.)
• Kindergarten: 1 (non govt.)

• Asad Chowdhury
• Abdul Gaffar Choudhury
• Atiqul Haque Chowdhury, drama producer and director

• Upazilas of Bangladesh
• Districts of Bangladesh
• Divisions of Bangladesh