The ethnic people in Bangladesh hold a very important place in the culture of the country.

The majority of these people live in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The others live in the

regions of Mymensingh, Rajshahi and Sylhet. They live in forest areas, in the hills

and in rural areas. They do Jhum cultivation. For this work they clear a piece of land in

the forest, prepare it and sow seeds in it. They are mostly farmers. By religion they

are Hindus, Christians or Buddhists. They speak their own mother tongues. Some

of them are the Chakmas, the Marmans, the Tipperas and the Moorangs, who live

in the Hill Tracts. The Santals live in Rajshahi. The Khasias and the Monipuries,

live in Sylhet and the Hajangs and the Garos in Mymensingh.