A total of 38 genotypes of hilly areas that are grown as jhum viz. Kamarang, Plokapora binni, Baijja, Silongma (Suli), Suri dhan, Noli, Lal binni, Ranga binni, Patri, Rengui dhan, Gurli, Abdullah, Ranga binni, Gul galong, Kiron lal, Magumai malok (Gura sada), Chorui, Rangun jhuri, Company, Kaborok, Bandarnok binni, Napidi, Maiosa, Bandarnok beni, Khulua, Iakedi, Guri dhan, Galon, Maloti, Chorui lal, Lankapura, Tomlong, Kanoktara, Uttrasha beni, 33 no. dhan, Narikel chhari, Guligh dhan, Maloti were selected from the Genebank of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), Gazipur for genetic divergence study. The germplasm were grown under rainfed condition with three replications using one row of 5.4 m long each per entry and single seedling per hill with a spacing of 25 X 20 cm between rows and plants, respectively. Fertilizers were applied @ 80:10:60 kg NPK/ha. Control measures for pests, diseases and weed were taken whenever necessary. Thirteen morpho-agronomic and yield contributing characters viz. flag leaf length (cm), flag leaf width (cm), plant height (cm), days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, panicle length (cm), filled grains/panicle, unfilled grains/panicle, grain length (mm), grain breadth (mm), length-breath ratio, 1000 grain weight (g) and yield/hill (g) were recorded to study the genetic diversity. Mahalonobis’ D2 and Canonical Vector Analysis methods were used to group the varieties based on their yield contributing and ancillaries characters using GENSTAT 5.13 program in computer.