1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Bangladesh
Compare this sourced profile of Dhaka, Bangladesh before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Dhaka—10,356,500, Asia/Dhaka, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dhaka is GeoNames ID 1185241. Its recorded administrative path is Dhaka → Dhaka Division → Bangladesh, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Dhaka occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-09-05; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Dhaka ranks 19 by recorded population. Inside the 10 selected Bangladesh entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 13. Its 10,356,500 population value is 11.54 times the 897,484 median for the country cohort and 10.27 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Dhaka falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Bangladesh population cohort. Dhaka's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Dhaka's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Gazipur at 32.064 km with 2,674,697 recorded people; Comilla at 83.922 km with 634,654 recorded people; Khulna at 132.082 km with 1,500,689 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 100.018 km. Compared with Gazipur, Dhaka's recorded population is 3.87 times as large. Against Dhaka, Gazipur follows Gazipur → Dhaka Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Bangladesh cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dhaka identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Dhaka's. Against Dhaka, Comilla follows Cumilla → Chittagong → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Bangladesh cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dhaka identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Dhaka's. Against Dhaka, Khulna follows Khulna → Khulna Division → Bangladesh in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Bangladesh cohort, uses the shared Asia/Dhaka identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Dhaka's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 328 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dhaka's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1185241, the coordinate pair 23.7104 / 90.4074, country rank 1 of 10, and neighbor GeoNames 1200109 at 32.064 km bind Dhaka to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dhaka's reference point is 23.7104° north and 90.4074° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Dhaka is shared by 10 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Dhaka's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dhaka's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dhaka's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dhaka, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Dhaka's closest other entries in this atlas are Gazipur (32.064 km), Comilla (83.922 km), Khulna (132.082 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-09-05; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.