Gopalganj district
3 parliamentary seats · 5 upazilas. The current member for each seat, according to Parliament's database.
About Gopalganj district
Gopalganj District is a district in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. The district has 1,172,415 inhabitants and its surface area is 1,490 km2. The district headquarters is also called Gopalganj. It is the home district of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding President of Bangladesh. It is located on the bank of the Madhumati river and located at 23°00’47.67" N 89°49’21.41". It is bounded by Faridpur district on the North, Pirojpur and Bagerhat district on the South, and Barisal District on the East and Narail district on the West. Gopalganj is subdivided into five sub-districts.
History
In 1800, Babu Preetoram Marh, Zamindar of Janbazar, Kolkata purchased Makimpur Pargana for 19,000 taka only and became the landlord of the Pargana. Babu Rajachandra Das, the 2nd son of Preetoram Das was married to Rani Rasmoni of Mahishya caste on 4 April 1804. Landlord Rajachandra died only at 49 leaving his widowed wife Rani Rasmoni and three daughters on 9 June 1836. Padmamoni, the eldest daughter of Rani Rasmoni, married Ramchandra and gave birth to seven children; Mahendranath, Ganeshchandra, and five others.
People
According to the 2022 Census of Bangladesh, Gopalganj District had 308,710 households and a population of 1,295,057 with an average 4.11 people per household. Among the population, 250,128 inhabitants were under 10 years of age. The population density was 882 people per km2.
Source: Wikipedia, Gopalganj District, Bangladesh · CC BY-SA 4.0
Notable people of Gopalganj
- Abdullah Baqui
- Abul Hasan, poet
- Ainul Haque, footballer of Shadhin Bangla Football Team
- Akhter Mia
- Alvi Ahmed, film director
- Anis Ud Dowla, businessman and founder of ACI group of industries
- Asad Noor, exiled blogger
- Benazir Ahmed, former inspector general of Bangladesh Police
- Balai Dey, footballer for Pakistan and India
- Bhawani Sankar Biswas, politician
- Binoy Majumdar, poet
- Chowdhury Jafarullah Sharafat, sports commentator and journalist
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. 3 seats; tap an area to open that seat's page.
Seats and their members
Gopalganj is a district in Dhaka division with 3 seats in Parliament: Gopalganj-1, Gopalganj-2 and Gopalganj-3 (Tungipara and Kotalipara upazilas). In the 13th Parliament the seats are all held by the BNP. In the 12th Parliament (2024) the seats were all held by the Awami League.
Source: Parliament of Bangladesh | Updated 24 October 2026