Dhaka Division

Dhaka division, the second-largest division of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh, possesses thirteen districts and around six million people living in the division. Dhaka division, the administrative territory, contains and nourishes Bangladesh’s capital city, not recessively but directly, which is the center of politics of the whole country and the central hub of the commercial, industrial and educational interest.

Dhaka division (the administrative divisional territory) formed in 1829, got split in 2015. And that incident of segregation created a new division attribute, “Mymensingh,” which played a crucial role in reducing Dhaka to almost 11,000 square kilometers of administrative territory. Before 2015, the division (administration) covered an area of 31,051 square kilometers. Before 2015, the Dhaka division was used to maintain a total of seventeen districts. However, four joined the new divisional territory attributed to Mymensingh. Five more are still brewing to be detached from the greater Dhaka division for making the initiation of a new divisional entity, “Faridpur,” successful. (The five adjacent to the south of Ganga/Padma river).

Dhaka division is home to thousands of historical and cultural heritage of Bangladesh. Albeit the divisional territory attributed to Dhaka is the worst habitat to live in according to different census and fresh air index, Dhaka has always been a miracle territory to turn people’s fate and create thousands of livelihoods ( jobs)  around the region. And especially the division has been doing exceedingly well with an area of 20,509 square kilometers.

Dhaka division geographically is positioned at the central point of Bangladesh and hedged on the north by Mymensingh division, on the south by Barisal division, on the east and southeast by Barisal division, to its northeast is Sylhet division.

A division with innumerable mosques and around seven lakh rickshaws must have something fascinating to offer. A thousand significant historical and tourist places exist in the division, and a very few of them incorporates the beautiful Star Mosque (Tara Masjid), Dhakeshwari Temple and Lalbagh Fort existing in Dhaka city; the Kalinarayana Temple and Vawal Rajbari of Joydebpur; and the wari bateshwar ruins of the Narsingdi district.

According to the district census, 2011 and the Bangladesh population census 2011, Dhaka division managed to maintain an average Literacy rate of 43.44% while the male-female ratio stands chronologically 46.80%: 40.80% and yet the primary source of income is agriculture despite people prone to choosing a different diversified profession.