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Dhaka

First-level unit, Bangladesh: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-BGD-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BGD / BDStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
51,818,560
people (GHSL 2025)
20,973 km²
area
29.9%
of Bangladesh
13
units inside

01Map

Inside Dhaka

The 13 ADM2 units of Dhaka.

FIG 1 · 13 units inside Dhaka
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

51,818,560

29.9% of Bangladesh.

People · WorldPop 2025

48,262,563

-7% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

વિસ્તાર

20,973 km²

2,471 people per km².

કોડ

BD-C

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

27,730,414

people on land at or below 10 m, 53.5% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Dhaka in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2022-12-31

47,312,914

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2022-12-31

10.6%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

24%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

13 units inside Dhaka

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit કોડ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Dhaka – 18,699,609 15,168,113 1,479.01 12,643 36.4% 9,196,418
Faridpur – 2,359,842 2,333,470 2,049.59 1,151 4.6% 1,860,839
Gazipur – 6,553,782 6,394,480 1,821.14 3,599 12.8% 1,273,952
Gopalganj – 1,274,817 1,256,309 1,479.16 862 2.5% 1,253,186
Kishoreganj – 3,473,122 3,308,437 2,569.9 1,351 6.8% 1,932,806
Madaripur – 1,445,955 1,427,424 1,137.94 1,271 2.8% 1,428,952
Manikganj – 1,789,047 1,954,619 1,377.48 1,299 3.5% 1,093,635
Munshiganj – 1,384,454 1,677,912 934.42 1,482 2.7% 1,310,585
Narayanganj – 4,558,098 4,354,513 706.08 6,455 8.9% 4,349,894
Narsingdi – 2,850,618 2,828,760 1,170.02 2,436 5.5% 1,677,228
Rajbari – 1,264,286 1,276,055 1,141.67 1,107 2.5% 419,643
Shariatpur – 1,350,071 1,300,858 1,188.64 1,136 2.6% 1,192,122
Tangail – 4,358,985 4,402,825 3,373.52 1,292 8.5% 467,953
05સંપર્કમાં આવવું

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
682.8 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
1 H3 cells
Major roads
275 H3 cells
Railways
165.2 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
371.5 H3 cells
06જોખમ

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Dhaka publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Bangladesh.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08સ્ત્રોતો

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BGD ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · source · represents 2015
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BGD ADM2, source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BGD ADM3, source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM4 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BGD ADM4, source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
દેશો
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.