Dohar Upazila

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Dohar দোহার
—  Upazila  —
Dohar Location in Bangladesh
Coordinates: 23°35.7′N 90°7.3′E / 23.595°N 90.1217°E / 23.595; 90.1217Coordinates: 23°35.7′N 90°7.3′E / 23.595°N 90.1217°E / 23.595; 90.1217
Country	Bangladesh
Division	Dhaka Division
District	Dhaka District
Area
- Total	161.49 km2 (62.4 sq mi)
Population (1991)
- Total	175,842
- Density	1,089/km2 (2,820.5/sq mi)
Time zone	BST (UTC+6)
Dohar	1330
Website	Official Map of Dohar

Dohar (Bengali: দোহার) is an Upazila of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Upazilla is situated in the southern most part of Dhaka District. The mighty river of Padma borders the southern part of the upazilla.

Geography

Dohar is located at 23°35′45″N 90°07′20″E / 23.5958°N 90.1222°E / 23.5958; 90.1222 . It has 31645 units of house hold and total area 161.49 km². One of the largest rivers of Bangladesh, Padma is situated in the southern and South-western part of Dohar. This Upazila is bordered by Nawabganj Sri Nagar and a small part by Sirajdikhan which is an Upazila of the district Munshiganj formerly known as Bikrampur.

Demographics

As of the 1991 Bangladesh census, Dohar has a population of 175,842. Males constitute 49.41% of the population and females 50.59%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 86,196. Dohar has an average literacy rate of 32.9% (7+ years) and the national average of 32.4% literate.^[1] A large number of people of this area live abroad in pursuit of earning a living. Most of them stay in the Middle East and European countries. Now they are going to Australia and Japan]. But the rate of literacy is increasing nowadays.

The history of Dohar is old in British period. The British government forced to cultivate Nil but the farmers refused and went of strike the moment Mahatma Gandhi came.Welcome to Dohar

Administrative

Dohar has 8 Unions and 1 porosova, 93 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 139 villages. The names of the Unions are as below,

1. Nayabari
2. Kushumhati
3. Raypara
4. Char Mohammadpur
5. Sutarpara
6. Narisha
7. Mokshedpur
8. Bilaspur (the chairman of Bilaspur PU is SM Nazrul Islam)

The name of porosova is Dohar. The largest village in the Bilaspur Union is Debinagar]. Chotogolla is another village.

The parliamentary set no 1 (Dohar and Nowabgong are one set).

দোহার উঃ শিমুলিয়া মৃধ্যা বাড়ী[[File:Example^[2].jpg]]

References

1. ^ "Population Census Wing, BBS.". Archived from the original on 2005-03-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20050327072826/http://www.bangladeshgov.org/mop/ndb/arpc91_v1/tables04.htm. Retrieved November 10, 2006. 
2. ^ mirdha home

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