Dhaka (bgd)

Dhaka

Dhaka ranks 2,631st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Dar es Salaam, Edison, New Jersey, and Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Memorable people born in Dhaka include Khawaja Nazimuddin, Mahasweta Devi, and Ritwik Ghatak. Memorable people who died in Dhaka include Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Hussain Muhammad Ershad. Dhaka has been the birth place of many writers, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Dhaka is located in Bangladesh.

Dhaka, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is the ninth-largest and seventh-most densely populated city in the world with a density of 23,234 people per square kilometer within a total area of approximately 300 square kilometers. Dhaka is a megacity, and has a population of 10.2 million residents as of 2024, and a population of over 23.9 million residents in Dhaka Metropolitan Area. It is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world. Dhaka is the most important cultural, economic, and scientific hub of Eastern South Asia, as well as a major Muslim-majority city. Dhaka ranks third in South Asia and 39th in the world in terms of GDP. Lying on the Ganges Delta, it is bounded by the Buriganga, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakshya rivers. Dhaka is also the largest Bengali-speaking city in the world. Read more on Wikipedia