Dhaka Division
Dhaka District
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Dhaka

Dhaka is the capital and largest city of . It is the largest city by population in the historical region of and a major city in .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Central Dhaka and Old Dhaka.

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includes Motijheel, the centre of finance and business, the University of Dhaka, a historic area with a number of museums, and Tejgaon-Dhanmondi, home to large shopping malls, markets and a variety of eateries.

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is a term used to refer to the historic old city of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It was founded in 1608 as Jahangirabad or Jahangirnagar, the capital of Mughal Province of Bengal and named after the Mughal emperor Jahangir.

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The outer suburbs of Dhaka are a large semi-rural and industrial area in the north and east of the capital. Uttara, in the north, is home to the major entry point for most visitors to the country, Shahjalal International Airport.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as North Dhaka.

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is a district that can be further divided into Gulshan-Banani, an upper-class district which hosts the diplomatic zone as well as several ritzy hotels and five star restaurants, and Mirpur, an industrial area housing the city zoo, national stadium and botanical gardens.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Khan Mohammad Mridha Mosque and Dhakeshwari National Temple.

Archaeological site
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The is a historical near Lalbagh Fort in Dhaka, .

Hindu temple
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is a in , . It is state-owned, giving it the distinction of being Bangladesh's 'National Temple'.

Mosque
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The Chawkbazar Shahi Mosque also known as Chawk Mosque is a located in the Chowk Bazaar area in the of Dhaka, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paltan and Shakhari Bazar.

Suburb
is a thana of Dhaka, the capital of . It is often said to be the center of Dhaka, dividing "Old Dhaka" and "New Dhaka". was made a thana in 2005 by then Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia.

Quarter
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Shankhari Bazaar is one of the oldest areas in Bangladesh's , broadly known as Shankhari Potti. It stretches along a narrow lane, lined with richly decorated brick buildings, built during the late Mughal or Colonial period.

Suburb
is the oldest neighbourhood of Dhaka, which existed before Mughal Period. Currently, the largest publication and book market of Dhaka is located in the area.

Dhaka

Latitude
23.702° or 23° 42′ 7″ north
Longitude
90.37° or 90° 22′ 12″ east
Population
21,700,000
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
IATA airport code
DAC
United Nations Location Code
BD DAC
Open location code
7MMGP92C+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3442474911
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1185241
Wiki­data ID
Q1354
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Dhaka” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Dhaka”
  • Afrikaans: “Dhaka”
  • Albanian: “Daka”
  • Albanian: “Dhaka”
  • Amharic: “ዳካ”
  • Angika: “ढाका”
  • Arabic: “دكا”
  • Aragonese: “Dhaka”
  • Armenian: “Դաքքա”
  • Arpitan: “Dhaka”
  • Assamese: “ঢাকা”
  • Asturian: “Daca”
  • Asturian: “Dacca”
  • Asturian: “Dhaka”
  • Awadhi: “ढाका”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dəkkə”
  • Balinese: “Dhaka”
  • Bashkir: “Дакка”
  • Basque: “Dhaka”
  • Belarusian: “Дака”
  • Bengali: “জাহাঙ্গীর নগর”
  • Bengali: “ডাককা”
  • Bengali: “ঢাকা শহর”
  • Bengali: “ঢাকা”
  • Bengali: “মসজিদের শহর”
  • Bengali: “রিকশার রাজধানী”
  • Betawi: “Daka”
  • Bhojpuri: “ढाका”
  • Bishnupriya: “ঢাকা”
  • Bosnian: “Dhaka”
  • Breton: “Dhaka”
  • Bulgarian: “Дака”
  • Burmese: “ဒါကာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Dacca”
  • Catalan: “Dhaka”
  • Cebuano: “Dhaka”
  • Central Bikol: “Dhaka”
  • Central Kurdish: “داکا”
  • Chamorro: “Dhaka”
  • Chechen: “Дакка”
  • Chinese: “Dhaka”
  • Chinese: “达卡”
  • Chinese: “达卡市”
  • Chinese: “達卡”
  • Cornish: “Dhaka”
  • Corsican: “Dacca”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Dakka”
  • Croatian: “Dhaka”
  • Czech: “Dháka”
  • Danish: “Dhaka”
  • Dhivehi: “ޑާކާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Deka”
  • Dotyali: “ढाका”
  • Dutch: “Dhaka”
  • Eastern Mari: “Дакка”
  • Eastern Mari: “Дакке”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “داكا”
  • Erzya: “Дакка”
  • Esperanto: “Dako”
  • Estonian: “Dhaka”
  • Extremaduran: “Dacca”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Dhaka”
  • Finnish: “Dhaka”
  • French: “Dacca”
  • French: “Dhaka”
  • Galician: “Dacca”
  • Gan Chinese: “達卡”
  • Georgian: “დაკა”
  • German: “Dakka”
  • German: “Dhaka”
  • Greek: “Ντάκα”
  • Greek: “Ντάκκα”
  • Guarani: “Ndáka”
  • Gujarati: “ઢાકા”
  • Haitian: “Daka”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dhaka”
  • Hausa: “Dhaka”
  • Hebrew: “דאקה”
  • Hindi: “ढाका”
  • Hungarian: “Dakka”
  • Icelandic: “Dakka”
  • Ido: “Dhaka”
  • Iloko: “Dhaka”
  • Inari Sami: “Dhaka”
  • Indonesian: “Dhaka”
  • Ingush: “Дакка”
  • Interlingua: “Dacca”
  • Interlingue: “Dhaka”
  • Irish: “Dacca”
  • Irish: “Dhaka”
  • Italian: “Dacca”
  • Italian: “Dhâkâ”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Daaka”
  • Japanese: “ダッカ”
  • Japanese: “モスクの街”
  • Javanese: “Dhaka”
  • Kabiyè: “Taakaa”
  • Kabyle: “Dakka”
  • Kalaallisut: “Dhaka”
  • Kannada: “ಢಾಕಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Dakka”
  • Kashmiri: “ڈاکا”
  • Kashmiri: “ڈھاکہ”
  • Kazakh: “Дакка”
  • Khmer: “ដាក្កា”
  • Kikuyu: “Dhaka”
  • Kirghiz: “Дакка”
  • Komering: “Dhaka”
  • Kongo: “Dhaka”
  • Korean: “다카”
  • Kurdish: “Daka”
  • Ladino: “Dhaka”
  • Lao: “ທາກາ”
  • Latin: “Dacca”
  • Latvian: “Daka”
  • Lezghian: “Дакка”
  • Ligurian: “Dhaka”
  • Literary Chinese: “達卡”
  • Lithuanian: “Daka”
  • Livvi: “Dakka”
  • Lombard: “Dhaka”
  • Low German: “Dhaka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dhaka”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Dhaka”
  • Macedonian: “Дака”
  • Magahi: “ढाका”
  • Magahi: “ढाकानगर”
  • Maithili: “ढाका”
  • Malay: “Dhaka”
  • Malayalam: “ഢാക്ക”
  • Malayalam: “ധാക്ക”
  • Maltese: “Dhaka”
  • Manipuri: “ꯙꯥꯀꯥ”
  • Maori: “Dhaka”
  • Marathi: “ढाका”
  • Mazanderani: “داکا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dhaka”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dhaka”
  • Minangkabau: “Dhaka”
  • Mingrelian: “დაკა”
  • Moksha: “Дака”
  • Mongolian: “Дака”
  • Mongolian: “Дакка”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “داكا”
  • Nepali: “ढाका”
  • Newari: “ढाका”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dhaka”
  • Northern Luri: “داکا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dhaka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dhaka”
  • Norwegian: “Dhaka”
  • Novial: “Daka”
  • Nyanja: “Dhaka”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dhaka”
  • Oriya: “ଢାକା”
  • Ossetian: “Даккæ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻဒါကာ”
  • Panjabi: “ਢਾਕਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Dhaka”
  • Persian: “داکا”
  • Persian: “داکه”
  • Piemontese: “Dacca”
  • Polish: “Dakka”
  • Polish: “Dhaka”
  • Portuguese: “Daca”
  • Portuguese: “Dacca”
  • Portuguese: “Dhaca”
  • Pushto: “ډاکه”
  • Romanian: “Dacca”
  • Romanian: “Dhaka”
  • Romansh: “Dhaka”
  • Russia Buriat: “Дакка”
  • Russian: “Дакка”
  • Rusyn: “Дгака”
  • Sakizaya: “Ta-ka”
  • Samogitian: “Daka”
  • Sanskrit: “ढाका”
  • Santali: “ᱰᱷᱟᱠᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “ڈھاکہ”
  • Sardinian: “Daca”
  • Scots: “Dhaka”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dhaka”
  • Serbian: “Дака”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dhaka”
  • Shona: “Dhaka”
  • Sicilian: “Dacca”
  • Silesian: “Dhaka”
  • Sindhi: “ڍاڪا”
  • Sinhala: “ඩකා”
  • Sinhala: “ඩාකා”
  • Sinhala: “දකා”
  • Slovak: “Dháka”
  • Slovenian: “Daka”
  • South Azerbaijani: “داکا”
  • Spanish: “Daca”
  • Spanish: “Dacca”
  • Spanish: “Dhaka”
  • Sundanese: “Dhaka”
  • Swahili: “Dhaka”
  • Swedish: “Dacca”
  • Swedish: “Dhaka”
  • Swiss German: “Dhaka”
  • Tagalog: “Dhaka”
  • Tajik: “Дака”
  • Tajik: “Дакка”
  • Talysh: “Dəkkə”
  • Tamil: “டாக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Dakka”
  • Tatar: “Дакка”
  • Telugu: “ఢాకా”
  • Thai: “ธากา”
  • Tibetan: “དྷ་ཁ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Daka”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Dhaka”
  • Tumbuka: “Dhaka”
  • Turkish: “Dakka”
  • Turkmen: “Dakka”
  • Udmurt: “Дакка”
  • Uighur: “داكا”
  • Uighur: “داككا”
  • Ukrainian: “Дакка”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Dhaka”
  • Urdu: “ڈھاکہ”
  • Uzbek: “Dakka”
  • Venetian: “Dacca”
  • Venetian: “Dhaka”
  • Veps: “Dakk”
  • Vietnamese: “Đắc-Ca”
  • Vietnamese: “Dacca”
  • Vietnamese: “Dhaka”
  • Volapük: “Dhaka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dhaka”
  • Welsh: “Dhaka”
  • Western Armenian: “Տաքքա”
  • Western Frisian: “Daka”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈھاکا”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈھاکہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “达卡”
  • Yakut: “Даака”
  • Yakut: “Дака”
  • Yiddish: “דאקא”
  • Yoruba: “Dhaka”
  • Yue Chinese: “達卡”
  • Zeeuws: “Dhaka”
  • Zulu: “i-Dhaka”
  • “Daca”
  • “Daka”
  • “Dhaka”
  • “ma tomo Taka”
  • “ढाका”

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