Sherpur Sadar Upazila

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Sherpur Sadar Upazila
Sherpur Sadar
Division_name - District	Dhaka Division - Sherpur District
Coordinates	25.0000° N 90.0167° E
Area	360.01 km²
Time zone	BST (UTC+6)
Population (1991) - Density	381419 - 1059/km²
Maplink: Official Map of Sherpur Sadar

Sherpur Sadar (Bengali: শেরপুর সদর) is an Upazila of Sherpur District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

1 Geography
2 Demographics
3 Administrative
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Geography

Sherpur Sadar is located at 25.0000° N 90.0167° E . It has 80091 units of house hold and total area 360.01 km².

[edit] Demographics

As of 1991 Bangladesh census^[1], Sherpur Sadar has a population of 381,419. Males constitute are 51.58% of the population, and females 48.42%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 189,019. Sherpur Sadar has an average literacy rate of 19.4% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate. ^[2]

Sherpur Sadar is also famous for its rice mill.

[edit] Administrative

Sherpur Sadar has 16 Unions/Wards, 148 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 180 villages. an old famous school "sherpur govt. victoria academy" established in 1887, situated in "BAT TALA"