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Gosairhat

গোসাইরহাট
Gosairhat গোসাইরহাট
Upazila
	Coordinates: 23°5′N 90°26′E / 23.083°N 90.433°E
Country	Bangladesh
Division	Dhaka
District	Shariatpur
Establishment	1921
Granted Upazila status	1983
Area
• Total	196.72 km2 (75.95 sq mi)
Population (2022)
• Total	175,016
• Density	890/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+6 (BST)
Postal code	8050
Area code	06024
Website	gosairhat.shariatpur.gov.bd(in Bengali)

Gosairhat (Bengali: গোসাইরহাট) is an upazila of Shariatpur District in the Division of Dhaka, in south central Bangladesh.

Geography

Gosairhat Upazila has a total area of 196.72 square kilometres (75.95 sq mi).^[1] It is the southernmost upazila of Shariatpur District. Located on the western bank of the Meghna River, it borders Damudya and Bhedargan upazilas to the north, Haimchar Upazila of Chandpur District to the east, Muladi and Hizla upazilas of Barisal District to the south, and Kalkini Upazila of Madaripur District to the west.

The upazila headquarters is spread over the only two urban areas of the upazila, Dhipur and Daser Jangal mauzas. Together they have a total area of 4.33 square kilometres (1.67 sq mi).^[5]^[6]

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop. (000)	±%
1981	189	—
1991	115	−39.2%
2001	124	+7.8%
2011	158	+27.4%
2022	175	+10.8%
2011 population increased sharply because upazila boundaries were redrawn to include Kuchaipatti Union Source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics^[1]

Religions in Gosairhat Upazila (2022)^[7]
Religion			Percent
Islam			96.58%
Hinduism			3.38%
Other or not stated			0.04%

According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, Gosairhat Upazila had 33,169 households and a population of 157,665. 45,485 (28.85%) were under 10 years of age. Gosairhat had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 42.1%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 1072 females per 1000 males. 10,969 (6.96%) lived in urban areas.^[1]^[5]

The boundaries of the upazila were expanded in 2006 by the addition of Kuchaipatti Union, transferred from the adjacent Hizla Upazila of Barisal District.^[5] The transfer accounts for 21,313 of the growth in population from 2001. Without it the population increase from 2001 to 2011 would have been 10.5%.^[5]

Administration

Gosairhat, formed as a Thana in 1921, was turned into an upazila in1983.^[8]

Gosairhat Upazila is divided into eight union parishads: Alawalpur, Goshairhat, Idilpur, Kodalpur, Kuchaipatti, Nager Para, Nalmuri, and Samantasar. The union parishads are subdivided into 84 mauzas and 221 villages.^[1]

In the 2009 upazila elections, Fazlur Rahman was elected Upazila Chairman, while Chowdhury Ahsan Siddiqui and Ferdousi Begum were elected vice chairmen.^[9] The Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO), who administers the upazila for the central government, is MST Kamrunnahar.^[10]

Parliamentary constituency Shariatpur-3 covers Damudya and Gosairhat upazilas, and the Bhedarganj Thana portion of Bhedarganj Upazila. Nahim Razzak of the Bangladesh Awami League was elected Member of Parliament in a 2012 by-election in which he was unopposed.^[11]^[12]