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Dhaka District

district of Bangladesh in Dhaka Division
AdministrativeArea district_of_bangladesh Q1850485

Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
district of Bangladesh
Official website
www.dhaka.gov.bd[12]
Native label
ঢাকা জেলা[15]
Official name
ঢাকা জেলা[14]

Location

Country
Bangladesh[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 23.749°, 90.392°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Dhaka Division[2]
Shares border with
Manikganj District, Tangail District, Gazipur District, Narayanganj District, Munshiganj District, Faridpur District[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Population and size

Area
+1463.6[16]
Population
+14734701[13]

Codes

Located in time zone
UTC+06:00[11]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata UTC+06:00 GeoNames Asia/Dhaka edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +2
Capital
Dhaka[4]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Dhaka district en Dhaka District ar ضلع داكة ar ناحية داكة de Distrikt Dhaka es Daca fa ناحیه داکا fa ناحیه داکه fr Dhaka hi ढाका जिला id Distrik Dhaka it distretto di Dacca ja ダッカ県 ko 다카구 pl BD-13 pl Dystrykt Dhaka ro Districtul Dacca ru Дакка th อำเภอธากา tr Dakka (ilçe)
🔖 Identifiers · 25
VIAF cluster ID
137237808
Library of Congress authority ID
n82246029
GND ID
1225131448
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Dhaka-skyline-aymash.jpg ↗
Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-)
30 26
Bangladesh administrative division code (pre-2017)
30 26
Banglapedia ID (Bengali)
ঢাকা_জেলা
Banglapedia ID (English)
Dhaka_District
FAST ID
1227878
Freebase ID
/m/0brbt9
GADM ID
BGD.3.1_1
GNS Unique Feature ID
217114
Show all 25 identifiers +13
GeoNames ID
1337178
INaturalist place ID
27099
ISO 3166-2 code
BD-13
IdRef ID
266493971
MusicBrainz area ID
2c560ec5-018e-4d41-bc74-a44b01aff6a9
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007559698905171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4773565
SNARC ID
John R. Neill
Topic's main category
Category:Dhaka District
Who's on First ID
421187803
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"Dhaka", "Dhaka", "Bangladesh"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJd8fgq8yXWbgrXrmPt9Xd
Yale LUX ID
place/6bb9d910-c559-4326-958d-0feabe8a0a23

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 26
Savar Upazila, Khan Mohammad Mirdha Mosque, Nawabganj Upazila, Dhamrai Upazila, Dohar Upazila, Keraniganj Upazila, Saat Masjid, Gulshan Thana +18 more
Shares border with 6
Faridpur District, Gazipur District, Munshiganj District, Tangail District, Manikganj District, Narayanganj District
← Shares border with 6
Faridpur District, Gazipur District, Munshiganj District, Tangail District, Manikganj District, Narayanganj District
← Headquarters location 5
Embassy of Germany, Bangladesh, Amar Barta, Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, Ajker Patrika, Daily Ajker Darpon
People born here 3
Benoy Basu, Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri, Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury
← Category combines topics 3
Category:Mosques in Dhaka, Category:People from Dhaka District, Category:Upazilas of Dhaka District
Capital 1
Dhaka
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Dhaka District
Country 1
Bangladesh
Instance of 1
district of Bangladesh
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Dhaka Division
Located in time zone 1
UTC+06:00
People who died here 1
Dudu Miyan
SNARC ID 1
John R. Neill
Topic's main category 1
Category:Dhaka District
← Capital of 1
Dhaka
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Dhaka District
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Dhaka Division
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Summary

Dhaka District is a district of Bangladesh[1].

Related Entities

Bangladesh Military Institute of Science and Technology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Population and Housing Census 2022, District Report: Dhaka. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . govdirectory.org. Retrieved . govdirectory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 26d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 39
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bn', 'bpy', 'ca', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'hi', 'id',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/58868|batch #58868]]"
  2. 19w ago · Ainali · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Capital → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Dhaka District
    Capital → Dhaka
    Population → {'amount': '+14734701'}
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37829|batch #37829]]: GovdirectoryBangladeshFocus"
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