Dohar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Dohar Upazila

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 23.5958°N 90.1222°E. It has 31,645 units of house hold and a total area of 161.49 km². One of the largest rivers of Bangladesh, the Padma, is situated in the southern and south-western part of Dohar. This Upazila is bordered by Nawabganj, Sri Nagar and a small part of Sirajdikhan which is an Upazila of the district Munshiganj (formerly known as Bikrampur).

Demographics :
As of the 1991 Bangladesh census, Dohar had a population of 175,842. Males constituted 49.41% of the population and females 50.59%. This Upazila's eighteen-up population was 86,196. Dohar had an average literacy rate of 32.9% (7+ years) compared with the national average of 32.4% literacy. The rate of literacy is increasing nowadays.[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, but recently they are also going to Australia and Japan.

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


Administrative :

Dohar has 8 Unions and 1 porosova, 93 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 139 villages. The names of the Unions are as follows:
Nayabari
Kushumhati
Raypara
Char Mohammadpur
Sutarpara
Narisha
Mokshedpur
Bilaspur

The name of porosova is Dohar.

The largest village in the Bilaspur Union is Debinagar. Chotogolla is another village.



References : Population Census Wing, BBS."