COX'S BAZAR

town, southeastern Bangladesh, situated along the Bay of Bengal. A small port and health resort, it has one of the largest beaches in the world. Cox's Bazar is connected by road, rail, and air with Chittagong to the north. Its industries include cigar and cotton-textile manufacturing. Nearby are numerous salt-producing cottage industries and magnetite iron-ore, monazite, zircon, and titanium deposits. Ramu, 10 miles (16 km) east, is the site of a Buddhist temple. Constituted a municipality in 1869, the town was named for Hiram Cox, who supervised the settlement there of Arakanese refugees from Burmese conquest in 1799. Pop. (1991 prelim.) 55,026.