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Showing posts with label Dhaka Division. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dhaka Division. Show all posts

Monday, July 21, 2014

All Information About Gazipur City

Gazipur is a city in central Bangladesh. It is located in the Gazipur District, near the capital city of Dhaka and has a population of 1 199 215. Gazipur is the home of Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology and Islamic University of Technology (IUT), the country's only international university in the fields of engineering and technology, is run and funded by OIC.

Geography of Gazipur City 

Gazipur District (Dhaka division), with an area of 1741.53 km², is bounded by Mymensingh and Kishoreganj districts on the north, Dhaka, Narayanganj and Narsingdi districts on the south, Narsingdi on the east, Dhaka and Tangail districts on the west. Annual average temperature maximum 36°C and minimum 12.7°C; annual rainfall 2376 mm.

All Information About Narayanganj

Narayanganj is a city in central Bangladesh. It is located in the Narayanganj District, near the capital city of Dhaka and has a population of 220,000. The city is on the bank of the Shitalakshya River. The river port of Narayanganj is one of the oldest in Bangladesh. It is also a center of business and industry, especially the jute trade and processing plants, and the textile sector of the country. It is nicknamed the Dundee of Bangladesh due to the presence of lots of jute mills. Dundee was the first industrialised Juteopolis in the world.

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Full History of Dhaka

Dhaka City across Buriganga River - a painting by Frederick William Alexander de Fabeck in 1861, Dhaka, formerly spelled as Dacca in English, is the capital and one of the oldest cities of Bangladesh. The history of Dhaka begins with the existence of urbanised settlements in the area that is now Dhaka dating from the 7th century CE. The city area was ruled by the Buddhist kingdom of Kamarupa before passing to the control of the Sena dynasty in the 9th century CE. After the Sena dynasty, Dhaka was successively ruled by theTurkic and Afghan governors descending from the Delhi Sultanate before the arrival of the Mughals in 1608. After Mughals, British ruled the region for over 150 years until the independence of India. In 1947, Dhaka became the capital of the East Bengal province under the dominion of Pakistan. After the independence ofBangladesh in 1971, Dhaka became the capital of the new born country.

Full Information About Dhaka Division

Dhaka Division is an administrative division within Bangladesh The capital and largest city is Dhaka. The division covers an area of 31026.51 km², and has a population of 46,729,000 at the 2011 Census (preliminary results), revised to 47,424,418.

Dhaka Division is bounded by the Indian state of Meghalaya to the north, Barisal Division to the south, Chittagong Division on the south-east, Sylhet Division to the east, Rangpur Division to the north-west, and Rajshahi and Khulna Divisions to the west.
 
 
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