Physical Features and Settlement of Coochbehar

Abstract

Abstract:                                                                                        

One of the biggest obstacles to sustainability is urbanization. It is an intricate transformational process that impacts both people and environments. As a result, the size and number of urban areas worldwide are constantly growing. Urbanization is the process of becoming urban, or to put it another way, urbanization is a cycle that a country goes through as it transitions from rural to industrial society. People move from rural to urban regions, which are referred to as the concentration of people linked with the non-agricultural sector with changes in land usage and rural suffering. It is a geographical phenomenon that affects people, places, and infrastructure and involves population concentration, structural change, and socio-cultural change. While a sign of growth, the quantity and expansion of urban areas have negative effects on individuals and society as well as the long-term viability of the environment. Because tomorrow's bigger cities will be smaller communities today. With planned or unplanned expansion throughout time, towns have more environmental issues than their rural environs do from their inception to their maturity. So, in this situation, it is critical to examine each urban area's growth pattern since the majority of environmental issues have their origins in a town's development or expansion, which has a negative impact on the town's natural stability. The unfortunate situation of numerous first-order towns and cities, as well as metropolitan and agglomeration cities, suffering from numerous environmental tribulations frequently makes headlines, but towns of lower order of sequence or smaller in size are not properly highlighted, even though they will face the same problems in the future. The primary topics of this paper are coochbehar physical features and its settlement patterns.

Key Words: Coochbehar, Environment, Infrastructure, Settlements Patterns.