Muktagachha

Muktagachha is a town and municipality in Mymensingh District of the Mymensingh Division in Bangladesh. It is the administrative centre and urban centre of Muktagachha Upazila, which lies in the western part of Mymensingh district. The article says the Muktagacha thana was created in 1961 and converted into an upazila in 1983, and that the municipality was created in 1875, a long municipal history for a town of this size. The urban area is organised into 9 wards and 20 mohallas. According to the 2022 Bangladesh census the city had a population of 61,420 and a literacy rate of 86.05 percent, up from 49,915 people at the 2011 census, when the literacy rate was 60.17 percent.