Noapara

Noapara is a major town and municipality in Jessore District, in the Khulna Division of Bangladesh. It is one of the main urban centres of Abhaynagar Upazila and lies along the Bhairab River, so it is a river town. Bangladesh's 2011 census counted 85,856 people in about 21,267 households, of whom roughly 19 percent were under ten years old, with a sex ratio of 978 women per 1,000 men and a literacy rate of 63.67 percent for those aged seven and over. The 2022 census recorded 96,058 residents and a higher literacy rate of 82.19 percent, so the population rose by about twelve percent in eleven years while the literacy rate climbed sharply.