Narayanganj district
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Narayanganj District নারায়ণগঞ্জ জেলা |
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| District | |
 Location of Narayanganj District in Bangladesh |
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| Coordinates: 23°36′N 90°30′E / 23.60°N 90.50°ECoordinates: 23°36′N 90°30′E / 23.60°N 90.50°E | |
| Country |
 Bangladesh
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| Division | Dhaka Division |
| Area | |
| • Total | 683.14 km2 (263.76 sq mi) |
| Population (2011 census) | |
| • Total | 2,948,217 |
| • Density | 4,300/km2 (11,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | BST (UTC+6) |
| Postal code | 1400 |
Narayanganj District (Bengali: নারায়ণগঞ্জ জেলা pronounced: Naraeongônj Jela) is a district in central Bangladesh, part of the Dhaka Division. The anicient city of Sonargan is in Naryanganj . Its located in the bank of Meghna and Shytolkha River . The main centre of the disatrict is Naryanganj City . Its adjuncts with is capital city of Dhaka. Narayanganj is one of the oldest industrial District of Bangladesh. It is also a center of business and industry, especially the jute trade and processing plants, and the textile sector of the country. It is nicknamed the Dundee of Bangladesh due to the presence of many jute mills. Dundee was the first industrialised "Juteopolis" in the world.
Named after Bicon Lal Pandey, a Hindu religious leader who was also known as Benur Thakur or Lakhsmi Narayan Thakur. Pandey acquired ownership of the region from the British East India Company in 1766 after the Battle of Plassey. He declared the marketplaces on the banks of the Shitalakshya river as endowed property to pay for expenses for the worship of the God Narayan. Subsequently, the region was named Narayanganj.
Narayanganj became a district (Bengali: জেলা pronounced: Jela) on 15 February 1984. Formerly, it was a subdistrict (Bengali: উপজেলা pronounced: upojela) of the Dhaka district. It grew in importance in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, due to the influx of the Portuguese and the English. The first to develop was the west bank of Shitalakshya. Narayanganj only became important in the nineteenth century, when the Rally Brothers started a company exporting jute to the west in 1830, aided by a company from Assam. By 1908, 18 European companies, and two Indian companies were trading in jute from Calcutta.
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