![]() ![]() The city's wealthy Mughal elite included princes and the sons of Mughal emperors. ![]() The Mughal city was named Jahangirnagar ( The City of Jahangir) in honour of the erstwhile ruling emperor Jahangir. It was the hub of the muslin trade in Bengal and one of the most prosperous cities in the world. Dhaka was the capital of a proto-industrialised Mughal Bengal for 75 years (1608––1704). An early modern city developed from the 17th century as a provincial capital and commercial centre of the Mughal Empire. The area of Dhaka has been inhabited since the first millennium. Dhaka is also the largest Bengali-speaking city in the world. ![]() Lying on the Ganges Delta, it is bounded by the Buriganga, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakshya rivers. Dhaka ranks third in South Asia and 39th in the world in terms of GDP. Dhaka is the most important cultural, economic, and scientific hub of Eastern South Asia, as well as a major Muslim-majority city. It is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world. Dhaka is a megacity, and has a population of 10.2 million residents as of 2022, and a population of over 22.4 million residents in Dhaka Metropolitan Area. It is the ninth-largest and seventh-most densely populated city in the world. "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" categoryĭhaka ( / ˈ d ɑː k ə/ DAH-kə or / ˈ d æ k ə/ DAK-ə Bengali: ঢাকা, romanized: Ḍhākā, IPA: ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. ![]()
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