Abstract: Landslide is a very destructive natural disaster in hilly areas. This paper shows the main causes of landslides in Chittagong metropolitan city from 2001- 2019. The data used in this study are secondary in nature. Most of the data are collected from government and non-government organization, news papers and research papers on relevant study. In this study I used Google Earth Pro software to compare historical images with the images from the year when landslide occurred to indentify deforestation of hill forest before landslide event. I have collected landslide data......
Keywords: Chittagong hill tract, Deforestation, Hill cutting, Landslides, CDA
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