Dhaka
Dhaka is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is the largest city by population in the historical region of Bengal and a major city in South Asia.Photo: Tanweer drmc, Public domain.
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Popular Destinations
Central Dhaka
Photo: Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Central Dhaka 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.
Old Dhaka
Photo: SabbirAbeir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Old Dhaka is a term used to refer to the historic old city of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
North Dhaka
North Dhaka is a district that can be further divided into Gulshan-Banani, an upper-class district…
Destinations
Outer Dhaka
Photo: TasminTripty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The outer suburbs of Dhaka are a large semi-rural and industrial area in the north and east of the Bangladeshi capital.
Notable Places in the Area
Khan Mohammad Mridha Mosque
Archaeological site
The Khan_Mohammad_Mridha_Mosque is a historical mosque near Lalbagh Fort in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Dhakeshwari National Temple
Hindu temple
Dhakeshwari National Temple is a Hindu temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Jinjira Palace
Castle
Photo: Ruhul Amin Ras, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zinzira Palace, also spelt Jinjira Palace, is a late 17th century Mughal-era palace in Keraniganj, Bangladesh on the southern banks of the Old Ganges or Buriganga River.
Localities in the Area
Shakhari Bazar
Quarter
Photo: Ahemed Imteaz-nsu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shankhari Bazaar is one of the oldest areas in Old Dhaka broadly known as Shankhari Potti.
Bangla Bazar
Suburb
Bangla Bazar is the oldest neighbourhood of Dhaka, which existed before Mughal Period.
Dhaka
- Type: City with 21,700,000 residents
- Description: capital and largest city of Bangladesh
- Categories: megacity, metropolis, financial centre, million city, largest city and locality
- Location: DCC (Kotwali), Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.702° or 23° 42' 7" northLongitude
90.37° or 90° 22' 12" eastPopulation
21,700,000Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)IATA airport code
DACUnited Nations Location Code
BD DACOpen Location Code
7MMGP92C+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 3442474911OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1185241Wikidata ID
Q1354Dhaka Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Dakka
- Achinese: Dhaka
- Afar: Dakka
- Afrikaans: Dhaka
- Akan: Dhaka
- Albanian: Daka
- Albanian: Dhaka
- Amharic: ዳካ
- Angika: ढाका
- Arabic: Dhaka
- 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
- Bengali: ঢাকা শহর
- Bengali: মসজিদের শহর
- Bengali: রিকশার রাজধানী
- 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/达卡
- 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
- English: Dacca
- English: Dhaka City
- Erzya: Дакка
- Esperanto: Dako
- Estonian: Dhaka
- Extremaduran: Dacca
- Fiji Hindi: Dhaka
- Finnish: Dhaka
- French: Dacca
- French: Dhaka
- Galician: Dacca - ঢাকা
- 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: 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
- Kazakh: Дакка
- Khmer: ដាក្កា
- Kikuyu: Dhaka
- Kirghiz: Дакка
- Kongo: Dhaka
- Korean: 다카
- Kurdish: Daka
- Ladino: Dhaka
- Lao: 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
- 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
- Mongolian: Дака
- Mongolian: Дакка
- Mongolian: ꯙꯥꯀꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: داكا
- Nepali: ढाका
- Newari: ढाका
- Northern Frisian: Dhaka
- Northern Luri: داکا
- Norwegian: Dhaka
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dhaka
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Dhaka
- Novial: Daka
- Nyanja: Dhaka
- Occitan (post 1500): Dhaka
- Oriya: ଢାକା
- Ossetian: Даккæ
- Pa'o Karen: ဝေင်ꩻဒါကာ
- Panjabi: ਢਾਕਾ
- Papiamento: Dhaka
- Persian: داکا
- Piemontese: Dacca
- Polish: Dhaka
- Portuguese: Daca
- Portuguese: Dacca
- Portuguese: Dhaca
- Pushto: ډاکه
- Romanian: Dacca
- Romanian: Dhaka
- Romansh: Dhaka
- Russia Buriat: Дакка
- Russian: Дакка
- Rusyn: Дгака
- Samogitian: Daka
- Sanskrit: ढाका
- Santali: ᱰᱷᱟᱠᱟ
- Sardinian: Daca
- Scots: Dhaka
- Scottish Gaelic: Dhaka
- Serbian: Дака
- Serbo-Croatian: Dhaka
- Shona: Dhaka
- Sicilian: Dacca
- Silesian: Dhaka
- Sindhi: ڍاڪا
- Sinhala: ඩකා
- 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: Dacca
- Vietnamese: Dhaka
- Vietnamese: Đắc-Ca
- 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
- Dakah
- Mujib City
- ඩාකා
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