Tangail
টাঙ্গাইল | |
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 Location of Tangail District in Bangladesh | |
 Expandable map of Tangail District | |
| Coordinates: 24°18′N 90°00′E / 24.30°N 90.00°E | |
| Country |  Bangladesh |
| Division | Dhaka |
| Headquarters | Tangail |
| Government | |
| • Deputy Commissioner | Jashim Uddin Haider |
| Area | |
| • District of Bangladesh | 3,414.28 km2 (1,318.26 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 29.52 km2 (11.40 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • District of Bangladesh | 4,037,608 |
| • Rank | 5th in Bangladesh |
| • Density | 1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+06:00 (BST) |
| Postal code | 1900 |
| Area code | 0921 |
| ISO 3166 code | BD-63 |
| HDI (2018) | 0.574[2] medium · 18th of 21 |
| Website | tangail |
Tangail (Bengali: টাঙ্গাইল জেলা, romanized: Ṭāṅgāila Jēlā) is a district (zila) in the central region of Bangladesh. In 1969, Tangail district was created by Tangail Mohokuma from its 237 square kilometers of land and 3177 square kilometers of land acquired from Mymensingh district. It is the largest district of Dhaka division by area and second largest by population (after Dhaka district). The population of Tangail zila is about 4 million and its area is 3,414.28 square kilometres (1,318.26 sq mi).[3] The main city of the district is Tangail. It is surrounded by Jamalpur District on the north, the Dhaka and Manikganj Districts on the south, Mymensingh and Gazipur on the east, and Sirajganj on the west.
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2022censuswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ "Tangail P-XV" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. 11 June 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2016.