Savar ( bn, সাভার) is a city in central Bangladesh, located in
Dhaka District in the
division of Dhaka. It is the closest city from
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...
. It is also a part of
Greater Dhaka
Greater Dhaka is the conurbation surrounding the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka, which has grown into one of the world's largest megacities, and shows a very rapid rate of expansion. Dhaka not only grows because it is the capital and largest ur ...
conurbation which forms the
Dhaka megacity. About 296,851 people live here which makes this city the 2nd largest in
Dhaka District and
11th largest city in Bangladesh.
Geography
Savar city is located at in the
Dhaka District of central region of
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
.
Demographics
According to
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 ...
the total population of the city is 296,851 of which 132,692 are
male
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A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to ...
s and 124,062 are
female
Female (Venus symbol, symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ovum, ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the Sperm, male gamete during sexual reproduction.
A female has larger gamet ...
s with a density of . The number of total household of the city is 60,290.
Administration
Savar city is governed by a
Paurashava
Municipal Corporations or municipalities (also known as pourasabha) are the local governing bodies of the cities and towns in Bangladesh. There are 330 such municipal corporations in eight divisions of Bangladesh. A municipal corporation serving ...
named Savar municipality which consists of 9
wards and 56
mahallas, which occupies an area of .
See also
* located in Savar
References
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Cities in Bangladesh
Populated places in Dhaka Division