Mymensingh Division

Mymensingh Division is one of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh. It has an area of 10,485 square kilometres and had a population of 12,225,498 at the 2022 census. It was formed in 2015 from districts that had made up the northern part of Dhaka Division. The establishment of the division was declared on 12 January 2015, and on 14 September 2015 it was officially announced as a division of four districts: Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Netrokona and Sherpur. Tangail and Kishoreganj, the other two districts of the original Mymensingh district created in 1787, preferred to remain part of Dhaka Division. Its headquarters are in Mymensingh city. Muslims are 95.57 percent of the population, the highest share of any division of Bangladesh, and the economy rests on jute, rice, vegetables and wheat together with a large textile industry.