Sutrapur ( bn, সূত্রাপুর) is a
Thana of
Dhaka District
Dhaka District ( bn, ঢাকা জেলা, Dhaka jela) is a district in central Bangladesh, and is the densest district in the nation. It is a part of the Dhaka Division. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and rests on the eastern banks o ...
in the Division of
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 ...
,
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 ...
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Geography
Sutrapur is located at . It has 49,286 households and total area 4.38 km
2.
Demographics
At the 1991 Bangladesh
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
, Sutrapur had a population of 307,483, of whom 186,619 were aged 18 or older. Males constituted 57.33% of the population, and females 42.67%. Sutrapur had an average literacy rate of 63.3% (7+ years), twice as high as the national average of 32.4%.
Points of interest
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Bhajahari Lodge
Bhajahari Lodge is a protected early 20th century mansion in Tipu Sultan Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
It was built by Bhajahari Saha Banik around 1925. Although it was primarily a residence, Bhajahari and his brother Lal Mohan Saha founded a theatre ...
is an early 20th century building on the
Department of Archaeology's list of protected monuments.
Education
Sutrapur is home to some of the old and renowned schools, like
Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College
Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College ( bn, সরকারি শহীদ সোহরাওয়ার্দী কলেজ )is a public college in Laxsmibazar near Bahadurshah Park of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. It offers higher-secondary educ ...
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St Gregory's High School,
Dhaka Collegiate School,
Muslim Government High School, and
Pogose School, Dhaka.
See also
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Upazilas of Bangladesh
An ''upazila'' ( bn, উপজেলা, upôzela, lit=sub-district pronounced: ), formerly called ''thana'', is an administrative region in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a ...
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Districts of Bangladesh
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Divisions of Bangladesh
References
Old Dhaka
Thanas of Dhaka
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