Narsingdi District ( bn, নরসিংদী জেলা) is a district in central

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. It is located 50 km north-east of

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city of

. It is a part of the

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. The district is famous for its textile craft industry. Narsingdi is bordered by

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in the north and north-east,

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in the east and south-east,

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in the south and south-west and

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in the west.

Subdivisions

There are six upazilas, or subdivisions, in the Narsingdi district. *

Belabo Upazila Belabo ( bn, বেলাবো) is an upazila of the Narsingdi District of Bangladesh, located in the Dhaka Division. Here the 2,500-year-old civilisation of Wari-Bateshwar has been discovered. It is believed that it was a port city with foreign ...

* Monohardi Upazila *

Narsingdi Sadar Upazila Narsingdi Sadar ( bn, নরসিংদী সদর) is an upazila of Narsingdi District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Geography Narsingdi Sadar is located at . It has 81,780 households and an area of . Demographics As of the 1991 Bang ...

Palash Upazila Palash ( bn, পলাশ, Polash) is an upazila of the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh. It is the smallest upazila (sub-district) of Narsingdi District. Urban Palash is a part of Greater Dhaka; the conurbation surrounding the Bangladeshi capital city ...

* Raipura Upazila *

Shibpur Upazila Shibpur ( bn, শিবপুর) is an upazila of Narsingdi District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Geography Shibpur is located at . It has 44365 households and total area 206.89 km2. Demographics As of the 1991 Bangladesh census, ...

Demographics

According to the

2011 Bangladesh census In 2011, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh, which provided a provisional estimate of the total population of the country as 142,319,000. The previous decennial census was the 2001 census. Data were reco ...

, Narsingdi district had a population was 2,224,944, of which 1,102,943 were males and 1,122,001 females. Rural population was 1,777,299 (79.88%) while the urban population was 447,645 (20.12%). Narsingdi district had a literacy rate of 49.60% for the population 7 years and above: 50.56% for males and 48.86% for females. Muslims make up 94.33% of the population, while Hindus are 5.65% of the population.

Rivers

The

Meghna The Meghna River ( bn, মেঘনা নদী) is one of the major rivers in Bangladesh, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest delta on earth, which fans out to the Bay of Bengal. A part of the Surma-Meghna River System, ...

, the Shitalakshya, the old

Brahmaputra The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet, northeast India, and Bangladesh. It is also known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan, the Siang/Dihang River in Arunachali, Luit in Assamese, and Jamuna River in Bangla. It ...

, Arial Kha, Haridhoa, and Paharea are some of the main rivers that flow through this district.

Gallery

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Subdivisions

Demographics

Rivers

Gallery

See also

Notes

References

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