{{Short description|Thana in Dhaka South City Corporation, Bangladesh}} {{Infobox settlement | official_name = New Market Thana | native_name = নিউ মার্কেট থানা | native_name_lang = bn | settlement_type = Thana | established_title = Established as a thana | established_date = 2005 | image_skyline = Balaka cinema hall near Dhaka New Market by Ragib.jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = Balaka cinema hall near Dhaka New Market | blank_emblem_link = | pushpin_map = Bangladesh Dhaka#Bangladesh Dhaka division#Bangladesh | pushpin_map_caption = Location of New Market Thana within Dhaka##Location of New Market Thana within Bangladesh | pushpin_label_position = right | map_caption1 = Expandable map of vicinity of Dhaka New Market | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Bangladesh}} | subdivision_type1 = Division | subdivision_name1 = Dhaka Division | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Dhaka District | subdivision_type3 = <!-- Capital --> | subdivision_name3 = | population_total = 54,210 | population_as_of = 2022 | population_footnotes = <ref name="census2022-nationalreport">{{Cite book |url=https://bbs.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/bbs.portal.gov.bd/page/b343a8b4_956b_45ca_872f_4cf9b2f1a6e0/2024-01-31-15-51-b53c55dd692233ae401ba013060b9cbb.pdf |title=National Report |date=November 2023 |publisher=Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics |isbn=978-9844752016 |series=Population and Housing Census 2022 |volume=1 |location=Dhaka |pages=386}}</ref> | population_density_km2 = 29654 | area_total_km2 = 1.67 | elevation_footnotes = <ref name="Elevation of Dhaka">{{cite web|url=http://dateandtime.info/citycoordinates.php?id=1185241 |title=Geographic coordinates of Dhaka, Bangladesh |publisher=DATEANDTIME.INFO|access-date=7 July 2016 }}</ref> | elevation_m = 23 | timezone = BST | utc_offset = +6 | coordinates = {{coord|23.73115|N|90.37993|E|display=inline,title}} | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 1205<ref name="postalcode">{{Cite web |url=https://bdpost.portal.gov.bd/site/page/6aaeabe4-479b-4e5a-a671-e9e5b994bf9a |title=Bangladesh Postal Code |date=19 October 2024 |publisher=Bangladesh Postal Department under the Department of Posts and Telecommunications of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology of the People's Republic of Bangladesh |location=Dhaka }}{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> | area_code = 02<ref name="areacode">{{Cite web |url=https://en.chahaoba.com/Bangladesh |title=Bangladesh Area Code |date=18 October 2024 |publisher=Chahaoba.com |location=China}}</ref> | website = | footnotes = | name = }}
'''New Market''' is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.<ref name=Banglapedia>{{cite book |author=Shamsun Nahar |chapter=New Market Thana |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=New_Market_Thana |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |editor=Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh |year=2012 |edition=Second}}</ref> New Market and Chandni Chowk are situated in this thana area. The Dhaka College is also located here.
== Demographics ==
{{bar box |title=Religions in Newmarket Thana (2022)<ref name="2022census"/> |titlebar=#Fcd116 |left1=Religion |right1=Percent |float=left |width= |bars= {{bar percent|Islam|green|93.95}} {{bar percent|Hinduism|darkorange|5.62}} {{bar percent|Other or not stated|black|0.44}} }}
According to the 2022 Bangladeshi census, Newmarket Thana had 11,857 households and a population of 54,220. 5.72% of the population were under 5 years of age. Newmarket had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 94.91%: 95.88% for males and 93.61% for females, and a sex ratio of 133.12 males for every 100 females.<ref name="2022census">{{Cite book |url=http://203.112.218.101/storage/files/1/Publications/PHC_2021/Dhaka%20Division/District%20Report%20Dhaka_25062024.pdf |title=Population and Housing Census 2022 - District Report: Dhaka |date=June 2024 |publisher=Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics |isbn=978-984-475-286-3 |series= District Series |location=Dhaka |pages=xiv, 54}}</ref>
According to 2011 Census of Bangladesh, New Market Thana has a population of 49,523 with average household size of 6.3 members, and an average literacy rate of 86.7% vs national average of 51.8% literacy.<ref name=census2011>{{cite web|url=http://203.112.218.65:8008/WebTestApplication/userfiles/Image/National%20Reports/Union%20Statistics.pdf|title=Population & Housing Census |date=2011 |author=Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics |publisher=Bangladesh Government |access-date=17 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903181037/http://203.112.218.65:8008/WebTestApplication/userfiles/Image/National%20Reports/Union%20Statistics.pdf |archive-date=3 September 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== * New Market, Dhaka
==References== <references />
Category:Thanas of Dhaka {{Neighbourhoods of dhaka}}
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