Chakma
Lands
Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, and parts of northeast India
Countries Bangladesh, India
Facts 3
Population
The Chakma make up more than half of the Indigenous population of Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts.
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History
Regulations of 1900 confirmed that the Chittagong Hill Tracts were largely self-governing in internal matters.
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Land
Hill Tracts peoples are sometimes called Jumma, after jum, their traditional method of shifting cultivation.
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