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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. [ 22 ] [ 14 ] [ 23 ] It is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world.
The sprawling mega-city of Dhaka has a huge population, but the majority of the people nonetheless still live in villages in rural areas. Urban population: 37.4% of total population (2019 est.) Rate of urbanization: 3.13% annual rate of change (2019 est.) Bangladesh is considered an urban country based on their population density [citation needed]
According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, Dhamsana Union has a total of 92,036 households and 308,024 inhabitants. Among the population, 162,372 are male and 145,652 are female . The total literacy rate is 75%, with 78.4% of the male population and 71.1% of the female population being literate.
According to the 2022 Census of Bangladesh, Dhaka District had 4,035,241 households and a population of 14,734,701 with an average 3.62 people per household. Among the population, 2,231,856 (15.15%) inhabitants were under 10 years of age. The population density was 10,067 people per km 2. Dhaka District had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of ...
Dhaka serves as the capital city of the Dhaka Division, the Dhaka District and Bangladesh. The division remains a population magnet, covers an area of 20,508.8 km 2 with a population in excess of 44 million, it is one of the fastest growing populous administrative division of the world, growing at 1.94% rate since prior count, compared with ...
Dhaka (Bengali: ঢাকা), formerly known as Dacca, [1] is the capital of Bangladesh. [2] It is the ninth-largest and the sixth-most densely populated city in the world, with a population of 8.9 million residents within the city limits, and a population of over 21 million residents in the Greater Dhaka Area. [3]
Greater Dhaka is the Megalopolis including and surrounding the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka, which has grown into one of the world's largest megacities, and shows a very rapid rate of expansion. Dhaka not only grows because it is the capital and largest urban center but also due to massive internal displacement from millions of people ...
The primary census report of 2011 gives number of ethnic population groups of Bangladesh as 27. The first is Chakma, consisting of 444,748 people while the Marma, the second largest ethnic group compares with 202,974 people.