Jamalpur is a

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

and district headquarter of

Jamalpur District Jamalpur ( bn, জামালপুর জেলা, ''Jamalpur Jela'' also ''Jamalpur Zila'') is a district in Bangladesh, part of the Mymensingh Division. It was established in 1978. Geography Jamalpur occupies 2031.98 km2. It is locat ...

in the division of Mymensingh, Bangladesh. It lies along the bank of the

Old Brahmaputra river The Old Brahmaputra River ( bn, পুরাতন ব্রহ্মপুত্র নদী) is a distributary of the Brahmaputra River in north-central Bangladesh. Historically the main stem of the Brahmaputra, the larger river's primary out ...

. As of 2011 it had a population of 142,764, of which 96.51% were Muslim and 3.46% Hindu.

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