Kuakata (Bengali: কুয়াকাটা) is a town in southern Bangladesh known for its all encompassing ocean beach. Kuakata ocean side is a sandy scope 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 began from the word 'kua' — the Bengali word for "well" which was dug on the beach by the early Rakhine settlers(Burmese clans) in mission of gathering drinking water. They arrived on the Kuakata coast in the eighteenth 100 years in the wake of being removed 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.
The town Kuakata has ocean side named Kuakata Beach. Numerous travelers visit the spot to see the ocean side in spite of the fact that it hasn't worldwide acknowledgment like Cox's Bazar Beach yet it is famous in Bangladesh. There are many spots vacationer visit, for example, -
Kuakata National Park
Kuakata Ecopark
Backwoods of Fatra
Well of Kuakata
Shima Buddhist Monastery
Rakhaine settlement of Keranipara
Alipur Port
Mishripara Buddhist Monastery
Backwoods of Gangamati
