Shariatpur

Shariatpur is a town in Dhaka division in south-central Bangladesh and the headquarters of Shariatpur District. The article says it is named for Haji Shariatullah, an Islamic revivalist. At the 2011 census Shariatpur Paurashava had 10,908 households and a population of 49,535, of whom 10,720 were under ten years of age, with a literacy rate of 62.49 percent against a national average of 51.8 percent and a sex ratio of 972 females per 1,000 males. City Population gives 70,581 for 2022.