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Dhamsana Union

union parishad of Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ13151113
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Dhamsana (Bengali: ধামসোনা), also transliterated as Dhamsona, is a union parishad under Savar Upazila, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. The union covers an area of 32.77 square kilometres. Its parishad office is located in Bolibhadra Bazar area. In the year 2011, Dhamsana is the most populous union in Bangladesh, with a total population of 308,024.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, Dhamsana Union has a total of 92,036 households and 308,024 inhabitants. Among the population, 162,372 are male and 145,652 are female. The total literacy rate is 75%, with 78.4% of the male population and 71.1% of the female population being literate.

Administrative divisions

As of the year 2011, Dhamsana consists of 14 mouzas. They are listed below:

Notable Person

Mohammad Saiful Islam who is an MP of Dhaka-19 Savar Constituency. A resident of the union.

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The public source identifies “Dhamsana Union” as union parishad of Dhaka, Bangladesh. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dhamsana, Union and union.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dhamsana, Union and union providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q13151113. Authority coordinates are 23.942, 90.254. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from Dhamsana Union” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.