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. The most famous people from Dhaka are Fazlur Rahman Khan, Khawaja Nazimuddin, and Mahasweta Devi. The most famous people who died in Dhaka are Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Mohammad Ali Bogra. Dhaka has been the birth place of many writers, and architects and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Dhaka is located in Bangladesh.

Dhaka, formerly spelled as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world, with a density of about 34,000 residents per square kilometer and a total area of approximately 300 square kilometers. Dhaka is a megacity, and has a population of 10.2 million as of 2024, and a population of over 23.9 million in Dhaka Metropolitan Area. It is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world. Dhaka is an important cultural, economic, and scientific hub of Eastern South Asia. Dhaka ranks fourth in South Asia and 55th in the world in terms of GDP. Lying on the Ganges Delta, it is bounded by the Buriganga, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakshya rivers. It is also the largest Bengali-speaking city in the world. Read more on Wikipedia