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Dhaka
ঢাকা
—  Caipital ceety  —
Clockweys frae bottom left: Bangabhaban, Shaheed Minar an Kawran Bazar, Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban, Motijheel skyline, Aurie surroondin Baitul Mukarram, Rickshaws in Dhaka
Eik-name(s): Ceety o Mosques
Dhaka is located in Bangladesh
Dhaka
Location o Dhaka in Bangladesh
Coordinates: 23°42′0″N 90°22′30″E / 23.7°N 90.375°E / 23.7; 90.375
Kintra Banner o Bangladesh Bangladesh
Admeenistrative Destrict Dhaka Destrict
Establishment 1608 CE
Grantit ceety status 1947
Aurie
 - Caipital ceety 360 km2 (139 sq mi)
 - Watter 48.56 km2 (18.7 sq mi)
Hicht[1] 4 m (13.12 ft)
Indwallers (2008)[2]
 - Caipital ceety 7,000,940
 Densitie 23,029/km2 (59,644.8/sq mi)
 Metro 16,623,000(2,011)
 - Demonym[3] Dhakaiya or Dhakaite
 - Literacy rate 62.3%
Time zone BST (UTC+6)
 - Simmer (DST) BDST (UTC+7)
Postal code 1000
Naitional Cawin Code +880
Cawin Code 02
Wabsteid Offeecial Dhaka Wabsteid

Dhaka (Bangla: ঢাকা, pronounced [ˈɖʱaka]; umwhile kent as Dacca, an Jahangirnagar, durin Mughal era), is the caipital o Bangladesh an the principal ceety o Dhaka Diveesion. Dhaka is a megaceety an ane o the major ceeties o Sooth Asie. Locatit on the banks o the Buriganga River, Dhaka, alang wi its metropolitan aurie, haes a population o ower 12 million, makin it the lairgest ceety in Bangladesh.[2] It is the 9t lairgest ceety in the warld[4] an an aa amang the maist densely populatit ceeties in the warld. Dhaka is kent as the Ceety o Mosques[5] an renouned for producin the warld's finest muslin. Dhaka is an aa kent as the Rickshaw Caipital o the Warld. Approximately 400,000 cycle rickshaws run ilka day.[6] The day it serves as ane o the prime centres for cultur, eddication an business in the region.

Unner Mughal rule in the 17t century, the ceety wis kent as Jahangir Nagar. It wis a provincial caipital an a centre o the warldwide muslin tred. The modren ceety, housomeivver, wis developed chiefly unner Breetish rule in the 19t century, an became the seicont-lairgest ceety in Bengal efter Cawcuttie (presently Kolkata). Efter the Partition o Bengal in 1905, Dhaka became the caipital o the new province o Eastren Bengal an Assam but lost its status as a provincial caipital again efter the partition wis annulled in 1911. Efter the partition o Indie in 1947, Dhaka became the administrative caipital o East Pakistan, an later, in 1971, the caipital o an independent Bangladesh. Durin the intervenin period, the ceety witnessed widespread turmoil; this includit mony impositions o martial law, the declaration o Bangladesh's unthirldom, military suppression, devastation durin war, an natural calamities.

Modren Dhaka is the centre o poleetical, cultural an economic life in Bangladesh.[7] Although its urban infrastructure is the maist developed in the kintra, Dhaka suffers frae urban problems sic as pollution, congestion, an lack o adequate services due tae the risin population. In recent decades, Dhaka haes seen modrenization o transport, communications an public wirks. The ceety is attractin lairge foreign investments an greater volumes o commerce an trade. It is an aa experiencin an increasin influx o fowk frae athort the naition, this haes made Dhaka the fastest growin ceety in the warld.[8][9]

References [edit]

  1. Dhaka, Bangladesh Map. National Geographic Channel. Retrieved on 6 September 2009. .
  2. 2.0 2.1 Statistical Pocket Book, 2008 (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved on 15 August 2009. .
  3. The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 234. Thedailystar.net (2005-01-19). Retrieved on 2010-12-18.
  4. 2010 World Bank Country Assistance Strategy (Page 4) http://siteresources.worldbank.org/BANGLADESHEXTN/Resources/295759-1271081222839/BDCAS.pdf
  5. everything about our city. Dhaka City. Retrieved on 8 Mey 2010. .
  6. Lawson, Alastair. "Dhaka's beleaguered rickshaw wallahs", BBC News, 2002-10-05. Retrieved on 19 September 2009..
  7. Price Information of Essential Commodities (Bangla) (php). National Web Portal, Government of Bangladesh. Retrieved on 27 Februar 2009. .
  8. [1][deid airtin]
  9. "Danger in Dhaka, the fastest-growing city", BBC News, 2010-07-07.
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