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(/dk/ DAH-k or /daek/ DAK-; Bengali:, romanization: hk, Bengali pronunciation: [aka]) is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It was built by the Mughal Empire as Jahangirnagar in 1610 as well as capital of Bengal Subah. It is the sixth largest and seventh most densely populated city in the world with a population of 10.2 million persons as of 2022, and a population of about 22.4 million residents in the Greater Dhaka Photography Area. [16] [17] [18] According to a Demographia assessment, Dhaka Photography has the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world, and is often reported as such in the news media. [19] [20] Dhaka Photography is one of the largest cities in South Asia and one of the largest Muslim-majority cities in the world. In terms of urban GDP, Dhaka Photography ranked 39th in the world and third in South Asia. As part of the Bengal delta, the Buriganga, Turag, Dhaleshwari, and Shitalakshya rivers surround the city. The city bears the distinction as the world's largest Bengali-speaking metropolis.

The area surrounding Dhaka Photography has been occupied since the beginning of the first millennium. An early modern city formed from the 17th century as a regional capital and commercial core of the Mughal Empire. For seventy-five years, Dhaka Photography was the capital of a proto-industrial Mughal Bengal (1608–39 and 1660–1704). It was one of the most prosperous cities and the center of the muslin trade in Bengal. In honor of the former emperor Jahangir, the Mughal city was named Jahangirnagar (City of Jahangir). [21][22] [23] The affluent Mughal elite of the city comprised princes and sons of Mughal emperors. In the 17th and 18th centuries, when merchants from across Eurasia resided there, the pre-colonial metropolis reached its zenith. The Port of Dhaka Photography was an important riverine and maritime trading hub. The Mughals embellished the city with gardens, tombs, mosques, palaces, and fortresses. Historically, the city was known as the Venice of the East. [24] Under British authority, the city received electricity, railways, cinemas, universities and colleges in the Western manner, and modern water. As the capital of Eastern Bengal and Assam province after 1905, it became an important administrative and educational center of the British Raj. [25] After British authority ended in 1947, this city became the administrative capital of East Pakistan. In 1962, it was designated the legislative capital of Pakistan. After the Liberation War in 1971, Dhaka became the capital of an independent Bangladesh. In 2008, Dhaka commemorated four centuries as a municipal city. [26] [27][28]

A beta-global metropolis,

[29] Dhaka is the center of Bangladesh's political, economic, and cultural life. It is the headquarters of the Bangladeshi government, as well as numerous Bangladeshi businesses and the country's foremost educational, scientific, and cultural institutions. Since its formation as a modern capital city, Dhaka's population, land size, and social and economic variety have exploded. The city is presently one of the nation's most intensively industrialized districts. The city contributes 35 percent to Bangladesh's economy. [30] The Dhaka Stock Exchange includes more than 750 listed businesses. Dhaka Photography is home to more over fifty diplomatic missions in addition to the headquarters of BIMSTEC, CIRDAP, and the International Jute Study Group. Dhaka Photography has a distinguished culinary history. Rickshaws, biryani, art festivals, and religious diversity characterize the city's distinctive culture. The old city contains over 2,000 structures from the Mughal and British eras. Since 1947, the city's publishing business has flourished, including the creation of a vibrant press. [31] Dhaka Photography's legacy has been mirrored in the works of Bangladeshi authors Akhteruzzaman Elias, Tahmima Anam, Shazia Omar, and others. [32]

Etymology Photography

Uncertain is the origin of the name Dhaka Photography. Once dhak trees were abundant in the region, and the name may have been derived from them. Another popular idea holds that Dhaka Photography relates to the dhak, a membranophone instrument played by order of Subahdar Islam Khan I at the 1610 inauguration of the Bengali capital. [33]

Some sources claim that the name is derived from a Prakrit dialect called Dhaka Photography Bhasa; or Dhakka, which is used in the Rajtarangini for a watch-station; or it is the same as Davaka, which is recorded in the Allahabad pillar inscription of Samudragupta.

[34] According to the Kashmiri Brahman Kalhana's Rajatarangini,[35] the region was previously known as Dhakka. The term Dhakka refers to a watchtower. Bikrampur and Sonargaon, the former Bengali strongholds, were located close. Therefore, Dhaka Photography was most likely utilized as a watchtower for the sake of fortification. [35]

History

Main article: the history of photography in Dhaka

For a chronological guide, see Dhaka Photography Timeline.

Dhaka was the capital of the Mughal province comprising Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.

Pre-Mughal

The history of urbanization in the region of contemporary Photography in Dhaka dates back to the first millennium. The region was a part of the ancient district of Bikrampur, which the Sena dynasty ruled. Under Islamic domination, it was incorporated into the ancient district of Sonargaon, the regional administrative center of the Delhi and Bengal Sultanates. The Grand Trunk Road connected the region with North India, Central Asia, and the port city of Chittagong in the southeast. Before Dhaka Photography, Gour was the capital of Bengal. Pandua, Bikrampur, and Sonargaon were among the ancient capitals. In the late 16th century, Isa Khan and his son Musa Khan led a confederation of twelve chieftains who resisted Mughal expansion in eastern Bengal from this location. Due to a change in the Ganges' flow, Gour lost its strategic significance. Due to the Mughal aim to solidify power in eastern Bengal, Dhaka photography was deemed strategically significant. Additionally, the Mughals intended to expand their dominion into Assam and Arakan. Dhaka Photography and Chittagong became the Mughal Empire's eastern boundaries.

Beginnings of Mughal Bengal

Ruins of Fort Lalbagh

Nimtali arch

Prince Dara Shikoh and an additional guy wore muslin robes.

1789 photograph of a woman dressed in muslin and holding a hookah in Dhaka

In 1610, Dhaka Photography became the capital of the Mughal province of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, which included the modern-day Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa. This region was formerly known as Bengal Subah. During the early period of Bengal Subah, Dhaka Photography became one of the world's wealthiest and largest cities (1610-1717). During Shaista Khan's tenure as governor, Dhaka's photography industry flourished to its greatest extent (1644-1677 and 1680-1688). Then, rice was sold for eight pounds per rupee. Thomas Bowrey, an English merchant seaman who visited the city between 1669 and 1670, recorded that its circumference was forty miles. He believed that the city had 900,000 more inhabitants than London. [39]

Bengal became the Mughal Empire's economic engine. Dhaka photography was crucial in Bengal's early industrialization. It was the center of the muslin trade in Bengal, causing muslin to be referred to as "daka" in marketplaces as far away as Central Asia. Mughal India relied on Bengali goods such as rice, silk, and cotton textiles. East European India Additionally, firms from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Denmark relied on Bengali goods. Bengal accounted for forty percent of Dutch imports from Asia, with many articles supplied to Dutch ships in Bengali harbors before being carried to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies. Bengal contributed fifty percent of textiles and eighty percent of silks to Dutch textile imports from Asia. Also exported to premodern Japan was silk. [42] The region was home to a substantial shipbuilding sector that supplied the Mughal Navy. During the 16th and 17th centuries, Bengal produced 223,250 tons of ships annually, compared to 23,070 tons produced by North America between 1769 and 1771. The Mughals embellished the city with well-designed gardens. Bara Katra and Choto Katra were two examples of caravanserai. Abul Qashisi Al Hussaini Attabatayi Assemani was the architect of the opulent Bara Katra. The ownership of Bara Katra was handed to an Islamic waqf, according to inscriptions in the Bangladesh National Museum. Bara Katra was also the residence of Mughal governors, including Prince Shah Shuja (the son of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan). Numerous Mughal administrators and military officers, as well as members of the royal family, resided in Dhaka Photography. The city was protected by Mughal cannons such as the Bibi Mariam Cannon (Lady Mary Cannon).

The first Mughal governor to stay in the city was Islam Khan I.

Khan christened the city Jahangir Nagar (City of Jahangir) in honor of the Emperor Jahangir. The name was discarded immediately following the English conquest. Governor Shaista Khan oversaw the majority of the city's expansion. The city measured 19 by 13 kilometers (11.8 by 8.1 miles) and had a population of approximately one million at the time. Dhaka Photography became home to one of Mughal India's wealthiest aristocracy. Prince Azam Shah, who was the ruler of Bengal, the son of Emperor Aurangzeb, and a future Mughal Emperor, began building of Lalbagh Fort in 1678. The Lalbagh Fort was meant to be the residence of viceregal Mughal governors in eastern India. Before the construction of the fort could be completed, Emperor Aurangzeb recalled the prince. Shaista Khan suspended fort building after the death of his daughter Pari Bibi, who is buried in the center of the incomplete fort. Before her untimely death, Pari Bibi, whose name means Fair Lady, was renowned for her beauty, engaged to Prince Azam Shah, and a potential future Mughal empress. [48] The Mughal court's internal strife stunted Dhaka's development as an imperial city. Due to the conflict between Prince Azam Shah and Murshid Quli Khan, Dhaka Photography lost its status as the provincial capital. Murshid Quli Khan declared himself the Nawab of Bengal in 1717, when the province capital was relocated to Murshidabad.

Naib Nizamat

Court of the Naib Nazim of Dhaka, governor of Dhaka, Chittagong, and Comilla, under the Nawabs of Bengal.

Under the Nawabs of Bengal, the city was governed by the Naib Nazim of Dhaka Photography. As the chief tax collector, the Naib Nazim's annual income was 1 million rupees, which was astronomically rich for the time period. [49] The Naib Nazim was Bengal's vice governor. He was also responsible for maintaining the Mughal Navy. The Naib Nazim oversaw the Dhaka Photography Division, which consisted of Dhaka Photography, Comilla, and Chittagong. One of the four divisions under the Nawabs of Bengal was the Dhaka Photography Division. The Nawabs of Bengal let European merchants to establish factories throughout Bengal. The region subsequently became a focal point of European rivalries. In 1757, the British attempted to remove the last independent Nawab of Bengal, who was aligned with the French. The last Nawab lost the Battle of Plassey due to the defection of the Nawab's army commander, Mir Jafar, to the British side.

After the Battle of Buxar in 1765, the Treaty of Allahabad authorized the British East India Company to collect taxes on behalf of the Mughal Emperor in Bengal. The Naib Nazim remained in power until 1793, when he handed all of his authority to the East India Company. In 1793, the city was formally transferred to the East India Company. British military raids severely devastated the infrastructure of the city. [50] The wartime conflict precipitated a precipitous decrease in urban population. [51] With linkages to the British Empire's commercial networks, Dhaka Photography's fortunes were enhanced. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, Dhaka Photography became a key center for the jute trade, as Bengal produced the majority of the world's jute. [53] However, until the late 19th century, the British overlooked Dhaka Photography's industrial and urban development. The pre-colonial, proto-industrialized textile sector ceased to generate income. Bengali weavers went out of business as a result of the implementation of a 75% tax on the export of cotton from Bengal[54] and the increase in imports of inexpensive British-made garments following the invention of the spinning mule and steam power. During Bengal's major famines under British rule, many of the city's weavers starved to death. [55] In the early 1800s, the population and economy of Dhaka Photography decreased due to the rapid expansion of the colonial capital of Calcutta. An Anglican bishop referred to Dhaka Photography as a "city of magnificent ruins" in 1824. [56]

Commerce and migration

China (porcelain) that belonged to an Old Dhaka Photography family in the nineteenth century.

The English, Dutch, and French East India Companies all maintained factories in Dhaka Photography.

[58] The French initially purchased the Ahsan Manzil site for their factory before selling it to the Dhaka Photography Nawab Family. Apparently, the Portuguese were responsible for introducing cheese. [59] During the Mughal Empire, there was an influx of migrants in Dhaka Photography. A population of Armenians from the Safavid Empire established in Dhaka Photography, where they participated in the textile trade and paid a 3.5% tax. [61] Armenians were extremely involved in the social life of the city. They inaugurated Pogose School. The Marwaris were the Hindu merchants. Also settling in Dhaka Photography were Jews and Greeks. [62] The city contains a Greek memorial. A number of the affluent families of Dhaka photography spoke Urdu, and featured Urdu poets. Persians also settled in the city in order to serve as administrators and military commanders for the Mughal administration in Bengal. [64] The names of areas in Old Dhaka Photography, notably Farashganj (French Bazaar), Armanitola (Armenian Quarter), and Postogola, reflect the tradition of diverse trading groups (Portuguese Quarter).

According to residents of the medieval city, "According to their account, Dhaka Photography was an aristocratic and refined city, the very last blooming of Mughal etiquette and sensitivity. This past is mirrored in the crumbling magnificence of the ancient city, which has been neglected for decades ". Frequently, Anglo-Indians staffed railway stations, postal departments, civil service posts, and river port stations. Rice, jute, gunny sacks, turmeric, ginger, leather hides, silk, carpets, saltpeter,[67] salt,[68] sugar, indigo, cotton, and iron were supplied from the city's hinterland. [69] The British opium policy in Bengal influenced China's Opium Wars. Bengal supplied American merchants with artwork, handicrafts, terracotta, sculptures, religious and literary books, manuscripts, and military arms. Some regional artifacts are on display at the Peabody Essex Museum. [69] The expansion in foreign trade generated profits for many city families, allowing them to purchase imported luxury items.

British Raj

A horse racing derby taking place in Dhaka in 1890, as captured by photographer.

Between 1905 until 1912, Dhaka Photography was the capital of Eastern Bengal and Assam in the British Raj.

Lord Curzon (far left) in 1904 with early autos in Shahbag

Images of the Old High Court Building, Dhaka

During the 1857 Indian insurrection, the city experienced Bengal Army revolts.

Following the effective suppression of the mutiny, direct control by the British crown was established. It granted benefits to the Dhaka Photography Nawab Family, who dominated the political and social elite of the city. As a base for the British Indian Army, Dhaka Photography Cantonment was constructed. Around Ramna, Shahbag Garden, and Victoria Park, the British built the present city. In 1856, Dhaka Photography received its own variant of the hansom taxi as public transportation. [71] The number of carriages rose from sixty in 1867 to six hundred in 1889. [71]

In 1874, a new municipal water system was implemented.

The Dhaka Photography State Railway was inaugurated in 1885 with a 144-kilometer (1000-millimeter) train line between Mymensingh and the Port of Narayanganj via Dhaka Photography.

[73] Eventually, the city became the hub of the Eastern Bengal State Railway. [73] On April 17, 1898, the first film presented in Dhaka was screened at the Crown Theatre on the riverbank. [74] The Bedford Bioscope Company organized the film screening. [74] In 1901, the electrical delivery began. [75]

This time period is described as "The portion of Dhaka Photography developed by the British in the early 20th century during the colonial period. Similar to colonial municipalities across the Subcontinent, this development was characterized by grand government buildings, expansive tree-lined avenues, and robust white-washed bungalows set within always overgrown (the British never entirely tamed the landscape) gardens. Once upon a time, here was the new city, and although it is no longer the ritziest part of town, the streets are still larger, the trees are more numerous, and the greenery is more pronounced than in any other area ". [65]

During the period of British control, the Dhaka Photography College, the Dhaka Photography Medical School, the Eden College, St. Gregory's School, the Mohsinia Madrasa, Jagannath College, and the Ahsanullah School of Engineering were among the first educational institutions to be created. At the Ramna Race Course adjacent to the Dhaka Photography Club, horse racing was a popular sport among the city's elite. [76] In the city, the Viceroy of India frequently dined and entertained Bengali aristocrats. After the turn of the century, automobiles were available. The Liberation War Museum has a 1937 Sunbeam-Talbot Ten. The Nawabs of Dhaka were Rolls-Royce owners. Austin automobiles were popular. The Beauty Boarding was a prominent restaurant and inn.

The fortunes of Dhaka Photography shifted in the early 20th century. The first partition of Bengal in 1905, which restored Dhaka Photography's status as a regional capital, reversed the British neglect of Dhaka Photography's urban development. The city became the capital of Eastern Bengal and Assam, with a jurisdiction encompassing the majority of modern-day Bangladesh and the entirety of what is now Northeast India. The partition was the brainchild of Lord Curzon, who acted on British intentions to separate Bengal to enhance government, education, and commerce. Dhaka became the location of the Eastern Bengal and Assam Legislative Council's headquarters. While Dhaka was the primary capital throughout the year, Shillong served as the administration's summer getaway. Lieutenant Governors controlled the province. They lived in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sir Bampfylde Fuller (1905-1906), Sir Lancelot Hare (1906-1911), and Sir Charles Stuart Bayley (1911-1912) served as lieutenant governors (1911-1912). Their legacy lives on in the names of three main roads in modern Dhaka, including Hare Road, Bayley Road, and Fuller Road. [78] During this time period, grand structures like as the High Court and Curzon Hall were constructed.

The capital of four administrative divisions, including the Assam Valley Division, Chittagong Division, Dacca Division, Rajshahi Division, and Surma Valley Division, was located in Dhaka. In Eastern Bengal and Assam, there were a total of 30 districts, including Dacca, Mymensingh, Faridpur, and Backergunge in Dacca Division; Tippera, Noakhali, Chittagong, and the Hill Tracts in Chittagong Division; Rajshahi, Dinajpur, Jalpaiguri, Rangpur, Bogra, Pabna, and Malda in Rajshahi Division; Sylhet, Cachar, [79] Cooch Behar State, Hill Tipperah, and the Kingdom of Bhutan surrounded the region.

Politically, partition enabled Dhaka Photography to position itself as the leader of Muslim populations in British India, in contrast to the overwhelmingly Hindu-dominated city of Calcutta.

[53] In 1906, during a conference on liberal education convened by the Nawab of Dhaka Photography and the Aga Khan III, the All India Muslim League was founded in the city. The majority of the Muslim population in Dhaka Photography and eastern Bengal supported partition in anticipation of greater employment and education possibilities. However, many Bengalis opposed the division of the ethnolinguistic zone. In 1911, King George V announced the annulment of the division during the Delhi Durbar. The British chose to reunite Bengal while moving the capital of India from Calcutta to New Delhi.

In the 1920s, the British awarded the city a newly founded university as a "splendid compensation" for the annulment of division. [80] The University of Dhaka Photography was originally modeled after the residential architecture of Oxford University. It gained the nickname Oxford of the East due to its residential nature. Similar to Oxford, Dhaka Photography students were linked with their living halls rather than their academic departments (this system was dropped after 1947 and students are now affiliated with academic departments). [81] The university's faculty featured scientists Satyendra Nath Bose (the namesake of the Higgs boson), Muhammad Shahidullah, Sir A F Rahman (the university's first Bengali vice-chancellor), and R. C. Majumdar. [82] By 1921, the Imperial Legislative Council had created the university. It began with three faculties and twelve departments covering Sanskrit, Bengali, English, liberal arts, history, Arabic, Islamic Studies, Persian, Urdu, philosophy, economics, politics, physics, chemistry, mathematics, and the law.

During the 1920s, the East Bengal Cinematograph Company created the first full-length silent films in Dhaka, including Sukumari and The Last Kiss.

1930 was the year that DEVCO, a subsidiary of the Occtavian Steel Company, commenced large-scale power distribution.

[75] During World War II, the Tejgaon Airport was created as a base for Allied Forces. In 1946, the Dhaka Photography Medical College was founded.

Metropolitan Dhaka Photography 0:26 NASA animation demonstrating the urban expansion of Dhaka Photography from 1972 to 2001.

Aerial image of Dhaka's central business district in the 1980s.

A typical 1980s residential neighborhood.

The growth of the "real city" began with India's partition.

After partition, Dhaka Photography came to be known as Pakistan's second capital.

[65]

This was confirmed in 1962 when Ayub Khan designated the city as the legislative capital in accordance with the constitution of 1962. In formerly barren and agricultural areas, new neighborhoods began to emerge. These included Dhanmondi (rice granary), Katabon (thorn forest), Kathalbagan (jackfruit grove), and Gulshan (banana orchard) (flower garden). [65] The pre-separation living standards were swiftly surpassed by the post-separation living standards. [84] The economy commenced industrialization. On the fringes of the city, the largest jute mill in the world was constructed. During the Korean War, the mill manufactured jute items which were in high demand. [85] People began to construct duplexes. In 1961, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip watched the improvement in Dhaka Photography's residents' standard of living. [86] 1966 marked the opening of the Intercontinental hotel, which was designed by William B. Tabler. The Estonian-American architect Louis I. Kahn was hired to construct the Dhaka Photography Assembly, which was originally planned to be Pakistan's federal parliament and later became Bangladesh's parliament after the country achieved independence. The East Pakistan Helicopter Service linked the city to surrounding communities.

On April 28, 1954, the Dhaka Photography Stock Exchange was inaugurated. On June 6, 1954, the first domestic airline, Orient Airways, began service between Dhaka Photography and Karachi. 1956 saw the establishment of the Dhaka Photography Improvement Trust in order to coordinate the city's growth. In 1959, the first master plan for the city was created. [87] In 1960, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization created a medical research centre in the city, which is currently known as ICDDR,B.

Between 1947 and 1952, the initial period of political unrest was marked by the Bengali Language Movement. Midway through the 1960s, the Awami League's six-point autonomy demands gave birth to pro-independence sentiments throughout East Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was released from prison in 1969 amidst a huge uprising that culminated to Ayub Khan's resignation in 1970. The city was home to influential newspapers like as the Pakistan Observer, Ittefaq, Forum, and Weekly Holiday. During the political and constitutional crisis of 1971, the military junta led by Yahya Khan refused to relinquish authority to the newly elected National Assembly, resulting in widespread unrest, civil disobedience, and a push for independence. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, head of the Awami League, addressed a vast public gathering at Dhaka's Ramna Race Course Maidan on March 7, 1971, and warned of an impending independence battle. [88] [89] East Pakistan subsequently joined a non-cooperation campaign against the Pakistani government. As a gesture of resistance on Pakistan's Republic Day (23 March 1971), Bangladeshi flags were raised throughout Dhaka Photography. [90]

On March 25, 1971, the Pakistan Army initiated military actions against the inhabitants of East Pakistan as part of Operation Searchlight.

[91] Dhaka Photography borne the brunt of the army's atrocities, seeing a genocide and a campaign of widespread repression, which included the imprisonment, torture, and murder of the city's inhabitants, students, intelligentsia, political activists, and religious minorities. The Bengali police and the East Pakistan Rifles both staged mutinies against the army. [92] Large portions of the city, especially Hindu quarters, were burned and destroyed. The majority of the city's inhabitants were displaced or forced to evacuate to the countryside. December saw many air attacks by the Indian Air Force against Dhaka Photography. With Pakistan's surrender on 16 December 1971, Dhaka Photography witnessed the surrender of the west Pakistani army in front of the Bangladesh-India Allied Forces. [95] [page required]

Five decades after independence, the population of Dhaka Photography increased from several hundred thousand to several million. In 1972, the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh declared Dhaka Photography to be the nation's capital. During the post-independence period, Dhaka Photography grew rapidly by attracting migrant workers from rural Bangladesh. 60% of the increase in population has been attributed to rural migration. [96] In the early 1970s, the city experienced socialist turmoil, followed by a few years of martial law. In the late 1970s, the stock exchange and free market were reinstated. In the 1980s, the National Parliament House (which won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture), a new international airport, and the Bangladesh National Museum were inaugurated in Dhaka. Bangladesh was instrumental in establishing the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and hosted its inaugural summit in 1985 in Dhaka Photography. [97] In 1990, a huge rebellion brought back parliamentary democracy. Dhaka Photography has held a trilateral summit between India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in 1998; the summit of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation in 1999; and conferences of the Commonwealth, SAARC, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and United Nations organizations in various years.

During the 1990s and 2000s, Dhaka Photography experienced increased economic expansion as well as the emergence of prosperous business districts and satellite cities.

[99] The city's population quadrupled from 6 million to 12 million between 1990 and 2005. Foreign investment in the city has expanded, particularly in the finance and textile manufacturing sectors. The government of Bangladesh scheduled three years of celebrations between 2008 and 2011 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Dhaka Photography's establishment as an early modern metropolis. [26] [27] [28] However, frequent hartals by political parties have harmed the city's economy significantly. [101] The rate of hartal has decreased since 2014. During certain monsoon seasons, the city has seen widespread flash flooding.

Dhaka Photography is one of the world's fastest-growing megacities.

[102] It is anticipated that by 2025, it would be one of the world's largest cities, alongside Tokyo, Mexico City, Shanghai, Beijing, and New York City. The majority of its population consists of rural migrants and climatic refugees. Blue-collar employees frequently reside in slums. Congestion is one of the most notable characteristics of contemporary Dhaka photography. In 2014, only 7% of the city was reportedly covered by roadways. [105] Premier Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the first phase of the Dhaka Photography Metro Rail from Uttara to Agargaon on 28 December 2022. [106]