INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Bangladesh , with an agrarian socio-economic base, is characterized primarily by a rural settlement structure. The word āruralā area is comes from the Latin word āRuralisrusā which is equivalent with English word āthe countryā. Similarly the word āsettlementā comes from the English word āsettā meaning āSeatā or āsetlanā. [1] Expansion of rural settlement means human behaviours that are created as a physical environment on rural area. Physical environment can be treated as settlement form and pattern or chronological area coverage. About 76.61 percent people live in rural Bangladesh . [2] The present vegetation cover of the country and the landscape indicate several millennia of human activity. The original vegetation cover has been lost and the basic landscape has been changed considerably by levelling, tracing of land and also irrigation practices, and they have derived their characters from the pattern of human settlements developm...