Kuakata (Bengali: কুয়াকাটা) is a town in southern Bangladesh known for its all encompassing ocean beach. Kuakata ocean side is a sandy breadth 18 kilometers (11 mi) long and 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) wide. From the ocean side one can have an unhindered perspective on both dawn and dusk over the Bay of Bengal.
The name Kuakata started from the word 'kua' — the Bengali word for "well" which was dug on the beach by the early Rakhine settlers(Burmese clans) in journey of gathering drinking water. They arrived on the Kuakata coast in the eighteenth hundred years in the wake of being ousted from Arakan (Myanmar) by the Burmese radicals . Afterwards, it has turned into a practice of digging wells in the neighborhoods of Rakhaine clans for water.
Kuakata is a position of journey for Hindu and Buddhist people group. Countless fans show up here at the celebrations of 'Rush Purnima' and 'Maghi Purnima'. On these events the travelers scrub down at the narrows and take part in the conventional fairs. One might visit a 100-year-old Buddhist sanctuary where the sculpture of Goutama Buddha and two 200-year-old wells are found. The town Kuakata has ocean side named Kuakata Beach. Numerous travelers visit the spot to see the ocean side despite the fact that it hasn't global acknowledgment like Cox's Bazar Beach yet it is well known in Bangladesh.
