Dhaka Division
Narayanganj District
Sonargaon Upazila

Sonargaon

Sonargaon is a town in the . It has survived through many historical periods under the rule of various sultanates and empires, and was one of the original capitals of the Bengal region.
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  • Type: Town with 130,000 residents
  • Description: historic administrative, commercial and maritime center in Bengal
  • Also known as: “Sonārgaon”

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Historic building
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is a historic building.

Building
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is a building.

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is a building.

Sonargaon

Latitude
23.6422° or 23° 38′ 32″ north
Longitude
90.6023° or 90° 36′ 8″ east
Population
130,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
7MMGJJR2+VW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2481947630
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1187530
Wiki­data ID
Q3350313
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Urdu—“Sonargaon” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Sonargaoni”
  • Arabic: “سونارغون”
  • Bengali: “সোনারগাঁ”
  • Bengali: “সোনারগাঁও”
  • Catalan: “Sonargaon”
  • Chinese: “索纳尔冈”
  • Czech: “Sonargaon”
  • Czech: “Sunargaon”
  • Dutch: “Sonargaon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سونارجون”
  • Esperanto: “Sonargaon”
  • Georgian: “სონარგაონი”
  • German: “Sonargaon”
  • Hindi: “सोनारगाँव”
  • Hindi: “सोनारगांव”
  • Indonesian: “Sonargaon”
  • Japanese: “ショナルガオン”
  • Japanese: “ソーナールガーオン”
  • Kazakh: “Сонаргаон”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sonargaon”
  • Norwegian: “Sonargaon”
  • Russian: “Сонаргаон”
  • Tamil: “சோனார்கான்”
  • Urdu: “سنار گاؤں”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sonargaon”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.