Meherpur

Meherpur is a city and municipality in western Bangladesh and the headquarters of Meherpur District, which lies in the Khulna Division. It is governed as a paurashava, or municipality, and sits in Meherpur Sadar Upazila at about 23.8 degrees north and 88.6 degrees east. According to the 2022 Bangladesh census the city had a population of 47,133 and a literacy rate of 85.15 percent. The 2011 census had counted 10,418 households and a population of 43,133, of whom 7,393 were under 10 years of age, with a literacy rate of 66.32 percent compared with the national average of 51.8 percent and a sex ratio of 980 females per 1000 males. Islam is followed by about 94.7 percent of residents and Hinduism by about 5 percent.