Tangail District

Tangail District (Bengali: টাঙ্গাইল জেলা, romanised: Ṭāṅgāil Jēlā) is a district (zila) in the central region of Bangladesh. The establishment of the Tangail began with 3269 square kilometres of land requisitioned from Mymensingh. Earlier it was a Mahakuma of Mymensingh district. The district consists of 237 square kilometres of the prior mahakuma and with 3,269 square kilometres of land from Mymensingh district. It is the largest district of Dhaka Division by area and second largest by population (after Dhaka district). The population of Tangail zila is about 4 million and its area is 3,414.28 square kilometres (1,318.26 sq mi). The main city of the district is Tangail. It is surrounded by Jamalpur District on the north, Dhaka and Manikganj Districts on the south, Mymensingh and Gazipur on the east, and Sirajganj on the west.