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Background of Companiganj upazila

            The waves of the waves of the Bay of Bengal are awakened by the skill of sports. Today, the people of Kompaniganj are the people who are struggling to survive the onslaught of the sea, cyclones and catastrophic tidal waves. Companiganj is rich in cereals, birds call tamal, coconut osupari kunj and golden paddy fields. This Samatata region was inhabited during the Vedic period (1400 and 1500 BC), as evidenced by the chronicle of the Mahabharata. Looking at the history of naming Companiganj, it is known that Companiganj i.e. Yogidia was an important commercial seaport in the world. In 1853, the East India Company set up a factory at this place and started trading. The company set up a textile mill here in 1857, later the French also set up huge textile mills here and these textiles and salt, including the native textiles produced by the local yogis (weavers), were exported abroad through the Yogyakarta seaport. This place was later renamed as Kompaniganj after the East India Company. Pilgrims from Chandradwip, Bakla, Bhusana, Bikrampur and Meherkul used to hold conferences in Yogidiya of this Kompaniganj and Masterda Surshasen, Anant Singh, Loknath Bal, Bibhuti Bhushan Bhattacharya, Haranghosh Prabhut, soldiers of anti-British movement used to meet here. Companiganj, a sanctuary for cows, buffaloes and guest birds in a vast char area, consists of six unions and one municipality. Companiganj residents are sending a lot of foreign currency to almost all the countries of the world due to their employment in foreign ships. As a result, the char region of companiganj is today a prosperous mobsball city. The upazila was inaugurated on 2 July 1983.