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 Fazlur Rahman Khan, Khawaja Nazimuddin, and Mahasweta Devi. Memorable people who died in Dhaka include Ahmed Sofa, Zainul Abedin, and Sufia Kamal. 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 known 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 citizens per square kilometers 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 an 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