Old Dhaka
Bangladesh
Old Dhaka shares 55 connections with 1996 other places across 15 topics, spanning colonial history, cuisine, festivals, and language. The district traces continuous settlement from Mughal rule in 1610, and its culinary identity is anchored in the Bakarkhani flatbread, described by one culinary historian as the pride of Dhaka's gastronomic culture. Connections reach Pakistan and India through partition-era history, including a Bihari community that maintains a Urdu dialect. The local Bengali dialect Dhakaiya Kutti marks the area as linguistically distinct within Bangladesh.
Mahmud Shah (Sultan of Bengal)
Connects Old Dhaka to: Dhaka, Bangladesh | Hooghly district
Bakarkhani
Connects Old Dhaka to: Dhaka, Bangladesh | Lucknow, India
Stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh
Connects Old Dhaka to: Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dhaka College
Connects Old Dhaka to: Bangladesh | Paltan, Bangladesh | Dhanmondi Thana, Bangladesh
Bengali dialects
Connects Old Dhaka to: Dhaka, Bangladesh | Barisal, Bangladesh | Murshidabad district | Dakshin Dinajpur district
Mamunur Rashid
Connects Old Dhaka to: Dhaka, Bangladesh | Tangail, Bangladesh | Tangail District | Ghatail Upazila, Bangladesh
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha
Connects Old Dhaka to: Dhaka, Bangladesh | Niketan, Bangladesh | New Dhaka | Uttara (neighbourhood), Bangladesh
Baitul Mukarram
Connects Old Dhaka to: Pakistan | Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Mecca, Saudi Arabia | New Dhaka
Dhaka District
Connects Old Dhaka to: United States | Pakistan | Bangladesh | East India | Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ahsan Manzil
Connects Old Dhaka to: Paris, France | India | Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Dhaka District
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Connects Old Dhaka to: California | Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Sylhet, Bangladesh | Bah, India
Old Dhaka
Connects Old Dhaka to: India | China | Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Shankhari Bazaar, Bangladesh