Birganj

Birganj is a town and municipality in northern Bangladesh, the administrative headquarters of Birganj Upazila in Dinajpur District, Rangpur Division. It lies near the Dhepa River on the highway linking Dinajpur and Panchagarh and serves as the commercial and economic hub of the upazila. The settlement grew over the centuries as a market town. A police station (thana) was formally established there in 1890 under British rule and became an upazila in 1983. Birganj Municipality (Paurashava) was established on 15 June 2002 and was upgraded from C grade to B grade on 11 September 2006. The municipal area is 10.08 square kilometres of flat alluvial land on the Old Himalayan Piedmont Plain, divided into 9 wards and 11 mahallas. The 2022 census counted 23,534 people in 5,901 households, with a literacy rate of 86.08 percent.