Gopalganj is a district (zila in Bangla) in the Dhakadivision (bibhag in Bangla) of Bangladesh. The district has about 1,1 million inhabitants and its surface area is 1.490 km². The main city of the district is also called Gopalganj This article is about the Bengali language. ... Dhaka Division is an administrative division within Bangladesh. ... The South Asian country of Bangladesh consists of 6 divisions (bibhag), each named after its respective capital. ... This article is about the Bengali language. ...
Gopalganj is subdivided into 5 subdistricts (upazila/thana). One of these is again called Gopalganj Sadar. The others are Muksudpur, Kasiani, Kotalipani and Tungipara. For the Anglo-Saxon royal retainer, see Thane/Thegn. ...
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first prime minister and president of independent Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara, Gopalganj. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ( 1920 - August 15, 1975), born in Gopalganj, Bangladesh, was a Bengali nationalist leader in East Pakistan and first Prime Minister and President of independent Bangladesh. ... A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ...
Gopalganj was first treated as a town for the first time in the census of the report of 1921 when its population was only 3478 against 1.1 milion at present.
It is the birthplace of Banga Bandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Naton of Bangladesh.
Bogra, district lies in northern part of Bangladesh, on the Karatoya River, a tributary of the Jamuna situated at a distance of 227 km from Dhaka by road.
This was informed at a meeting held at the Bangladesh Center in London on August one to collect fund and receive suggestions from all section of the society to organize a coordinated thrust for rendering relief activities among the flood victims by the Bangladeshi expatriates in the United Kingdom.
GOPALGANJ, Aug 6:–The flood situation of Gopalganjdistrict remaining unchanged and thousand of flood hit families are in bad position and could not get sufficient relief goods in flood hit areas in the Gopalganjdistrict.
According to district administration six persons were killed, 1,19,800 people belonging to 29,400 families have been fully affected while 2,85,595 people of 67,661 families have been partially affected by the flood.