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Chakma Typical House
 Beauty of Kaptai Lake, Rangmati
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is the south-eastern part of Bangladesh, comprises a total area of 5,093 sq. miles (13,189 sq. km.) which is about one-tenth of the total area of Bangladesh with over 1.325 million populations (0.700 million indigenous people and 0.625 million Bengali Muslims, infiltrated and politically transmigrated Bengali Muslim settlers). It shares borders with Myanmar on the south and southeast, India on the north and northeast and Chittagong district on the west. The CHT is located between 21°-40′ degrees and 23°-47′ degrees north latitude and 91°-40′ degrees and 92°-42′ degrees east longitude. It is completely different in physical features, agricultural practices and soil conditions from the rest of the country with mountains and beautiful landscapes.
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The peoples of CHT are totally different from the rest of the people of the Bangladesh in all respects, such as, in social, economical, political, cultural etc. It is a land of twelves multilingual indigenous people consisting of Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Mro, Bawm, Pankhua, Khyang, Khumi, Chak, Lushai, Tanchangya and Murung. They collectively known as JUMMA. The indigenous Jumma people mainly practice Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity as religion. Each group has been exhibiting distinctly different languages, culture, religions and even customs. In spite of that these indigenous people has been peacefully co-existing with each other with their traditional economic system and develop their own socio-economic-cultural and political system under one umbrella. The Jumma people are Mongoloid origin belonging to the Tibeto-Burman group although there are some Indo-Aryan traces visible in them. The Bawm, Chakma, Khumi, Khyang, Lushai, Marma, Mro, Pankhua, Chak, Murung and Tanchangya are Tibeto-Burmese family and the Tripura is Indo-Aryan family. The Chakmas and Marmas have own scripts.
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