Munshiganj district
3 parliamentary seats · 6 upazilas. The current member for each seat, according to Parliament's database.
About Munshiganj district
Munshiganj District is a district of Dhaka Division. It is located in central Bangladesh. This region is also historically known as Bikrampur.
Geography
It is a part of Dhaka Division and borders Dhaka District and Narayanganj District in the north, Madaripur District and Shariatpur District in the south, Chandpur District and Comilla District in the east and Dhaka District and Faridpur District in the west. Total land area is 235,974 acres, out of which 138472 acres are cultivable and 5609 acres are fallow land.
People
According to the 2022 Census of Bangladesh, Munshiganj District had 399,631 households and a population of 1,625,416 with an average 3.98 people per household. Among the population, 303,978 inhabitants were under 10 years of age. The population density was 1,702 people per km2.
Source: Wikipedia, Munshiganj District · CC BY-SA 4.0
Notable people of Munshiganj
- Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Bengali biologist, physicist and botanist
- AKM Nowsheruzzaman, national football player
- Pratap Shankar Hazra, national football and hockey player
- Sharifuzzaman, national football player
- Rokonuzzaman Kanchan, SAFF winning national football player
- Humayun Azad, linguist, poet and novelist
- Alauddin Ali, music composer and director
- Chashi Nazrul Islam, filmmaker
- Nurul Kabir, journalist, writer and editor of New Age
- Imdadul Haq Milan, writer
- Buddhadeb Bosu, writer, poet, playwright, essayist
- Tahsan Rahman Khan, singer · songwriter, composer, actor and model
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
Munshiganj is a district in Dhaka division with 3 seats in Parliament: Munshiganj-1 (Sreenagar and Sirajdikhan upazilas), Munshiganj-2 (Louhajang and Tongibari upazilas) and Munshiganj-3 (Munshiganj Sadar and Gazaria upazilas). In the 13th Parliament the seats are all held by the BNP. In the 12th Parliament (2024), of these seats the Awami League held 2 and an independent 1.
Source: Parliament of Bangladesh | Updated 24 October 2026