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Dhaka (Bangla: ঢাকা, pronoonced [ˈɖʱaka]; umwhile kent as Dacca, an Jahangirnagar, durin Mughal era), is the caipital o Bangladesh an the principal ceety o Dhaka Diveesion. Dhaka is a megaceety an ane o the major ceeties o Sooth Asie. Locatit on the banks o the Buriganga River, Dhaka, alang wi its metropolitan aurie, haes a population o ower 12 million, makin it the lairgest ceety in Bangladesh.[4] It is the 9t lairgest ceety in the warld[5] an forby amang the maist densely populatit ceeties in the warld. Dhaka is kent as the Ceety o Mosques[6] an renouned for producin the warld's finest muslin. Dhaka is forby kent as the Rickshaw Caipital o the Warld. Approximately 400,000 cycle rickshaws run ilka day.[7] The day it serves as ane o the prime centres for cultur, eddication an business in the region.
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Dhaka ঢাকা | |
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Caipital ceety | |
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| Eik-name(s): Ceety o Mosques | |
 Dhaka Location o Dhaka in Bangladesh | |
| Coordinates: 23°42′0″N 90°22′30″E | |
| Kintra |  Bangladesh |
| Admeenistrative Destrict | Dhaka Destrict |
| Establishment | 1608 CE |
| Grantit ceety status | 1947 |
| Area | |
| • Caipital ceety | 360 km2 (140 sq mi) |
| • Water | 48.56 km2 (18.75 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 4 m (13.12 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Rank | 1st |
| • Density | 46,997/km2 (121,720/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 21,006,000 |
| Demonym(s) | Dhakaite, Dhakaiya |
| Time zone | UTC+6 (BST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+7 (BDST) |
| Postal code | 1000 |
| Naitional Cawin Code | +880 |
| Cawin Code | 02 |
| Website | Offeecial Dhaka Wabsteid |
Unner Mughal rule in the 17t century, the ceety wis kent as Jahangir Nagar. It wis a provincial caipital an a centre o the warldwide muslin tred. The modren ceety, housomeivver, wis developed chiefly unner Breetish rule in the 19t century, an became the seicont-lairgest ceety in Bengal efter Cawcuttie (presently Kolkata). Efter the Partition o Bengal in 1905, Dhaka became the caipital o the new province o Eastren Bengal an Assam but lost its status as a provincial caipital again efter the partition wis annulled in 1911. Efter the partition o Indie in 1947, Dhaka became the administrative caipital o East Pakistan, an later, in 1971, the caipital o an independent Bangladesh. Durin the intervenin period, the ceety witnessed widespread turmoil; this includit mony impositions o martial law, the declaration o Bangladesh's unthirldom, military suppression, devastation durin war, an naitural calamities.
Modren Dhaka is the centre o poleetical, cultural an economic life in Bangladesh.[8] Awtho its urban infrastructure is the maist developed in the kintra, Dhaka suffers frae urban problems sic as pollution, congestion, an lack o adequate services due tae the risin population. In recent decades, Dhaka haes seen modrenization o transport, communications an public wirks. The ceety is attractin lairge foreign investments an greater volumes o commerce an tred. It is forby experiencin an increasin influx o fowk frae athort the naition, this haes made Dhaka the fastest growin ceety in the warld.[9][10]
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