Natore

Natore is a city in western Bangladesh and the headquarters of Natore District. The Narod river passes through the centre of the city, carrying pollution from industrial developments upstream. The 2011 Bangladesh census recorded 18,828 households and a population of 81,203, of whom 13,104 were under ten years of age, with a literacy rate of 75.06 percent for people aged seven and over compared with the national average of 51.8 percent, and a sex ratio of 968 females per 1,000 males. The 2022 census gave the population as 87,067 and the literacy rate as 87.02 percent. City Population lists Natore as a municipality with earlier counts of 46,666 in 1991 and 70,835 in 2001.