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Haat Bazaar (Bengali: হাটবাজার) is an open-air market[1] that serves as a trading venue for local people in rural areas and towns mainly in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and India.[2] Haat bazaars are conducted on a regular basis, usually once, twice or thrice a week, and in some places once every fortnight. At times, haat bazaars are organized in a different manner, to support or promote trading by and with rural people.[3][4] In addition to providing trading opportunities, haat bazaars serve as meeting places, rural settlements come up around the haats which gradually grow into towns.
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