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Dhaka
Dhaka is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, on the Buriganga river in the Ganges delta. Made the Mughal capital of Bengal by Islam Khan in 1610, it flourished on the muslin trade, and later became the capital of the province of Eastern Bengal and Assam from 1905 to 1911, of East Pakistan, and from 1971 of independent Bangladesh. It is one of the most densely populated cities in the world.
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