Dinajpur district
6 parliamentary seats · 13 upazilas. The current member for each seat, according to Parliament's database.
About Dinajpur district
Dinajpur District is a district in Rangpur Division of northern Bangladesh. Dinajpur is the largest among all sixteen northern districts of Bangladesh.
History
Dinajpur was once a part of the ancient state of Pundravardhana. Devkot which rotated as the capital of Lakhnauti was located 18 kilometres south of Dinajpur town. It is also called "City of Maharajas". An ancient engraved stone, believed to be from the Gupta era, was recovered from the bank of a pond near Sura Masjid in the Ghoraghat Upazila in Dinajpur in 8 October.
Geography
Dinajpur is bounded by Thakurgaon and Panchagarh districts in the north, Gaibandha and Joypurhat districts in the south, Nilphamari and Rangpur districts in the east, and the state of West Bengal, India in the west. The total area of the district is 3,437.98 km2. The main rivers of the district are the Dhepa, the Punarbhaba, and the Atrai rivers.
People
According to the 2022 census of Bangladesh, Dinajpur District had 836,977 households and a population of 3,315,236, of whom, 19.11% of the inhabitants lived in urban areas. The population density was 963 people per km2. 17.20% of the population was under 10 years of age.
Economy
The economy of Dinajpur mainly depends upon agriculture based production. There is a well known proverb about Dinajpur – 'paddy piled up high, sheds full of cows, ponds brimming with fish' [gola bhora dhan, goyal bhora goru, pukur bhora mach]. People in this district are much happier than those in other districts, everything grows easily, it's a peaceful place. Dinajpur is famous for rice production. Dinajpur is also rich with wheat production.
Source: Wikipedia, Dinajpur District, Bangladesh · CC BY-SA 4.0
Places to see of Dinajpur
- Ananda Sagar
- Aowkora Mosque – meaning "Echoing Mosque"
- Mihun er nana bari
- Dinajpur Museum
- Dinajpur Rajbari
- Dinajpur Zila School
- Dipshikha School in Rudrapur
- Ghughu-danga Zamindar Bari
- Gorashohid Boro-Moydan
- Gour Gabindha
- Habra Zamindar Bari
- Sura Mosque
Notable people of Dinajpur
- Heyat Mahmud, medieval poet
- Haji Mohammad Danesh · 1900–1986, politician and communist activist
- Abdullah Al Kafi · , Member of Parliament for Dinajpur-1
- Subhash Dutta · , filmmaker, theatre and film actor
- Dhiman Ghosh, cricketer
- Liton Das, cricketer
- Lucas Marandi, Roman Catholic Bishop
- Hemanta Vincent Biswas, footballer
- Mojibur Rahman Jony, footballer
Map of the district
Boundaries from the Election Commission's description of the seats, drawn on the maps of OpenStreetMap (upazilas), OCHA (city corporations) and geoBoundaries (city wards; BBS, 2015); approximate. Background map from OpenStreetMap. 6 seats; tap an area to open that seat's page.
Seats and their members
Dinajpur is a district in Rangpur division with 6 seats in Parliament: Dinajpur-1 (Birganj and Kaharole upazilas), Dinajpur-2 (Bochaganj and Birol upazilas), Dinajpur-3 (Dinajpur Sadar upazila), Dinajpur-4 (Khansama and Chirirbandar), Dinajpur-5 (Parbatipur and Fulbari upazilas) and Dinajpur-6 (Nababganj, Birampur, Hakimpur and Ghoraghat upazilas). In the 13th Parliament, of these seats the BNP holds 5 and an independent 1. In the 12th Parliament (2024), of these seats the Awami League held 5 and an independent 1.
Md Monjurul IslamDinajpur-1, BNP
Md Sadique ReazDinajpur-2, BNP
Syed Jahangir AlamDinajpur-3, BNP
Md Akhtaruzzaman MiaDinajpur-4, BNP
A Z M Rezwanul HaqueDinajpur-5, Independent
Abu Zafar Md. Zahid HossainDinajpur-6, BNP
Source: Parliament of Bangladesh | Updated 24 October 2026