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Dhaka/Uttara, Dhaka — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Uttara is a planned township in northern Dhaka, laid out in numbered sectors near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
About Dhaka/Uttara
Where to stay in Dhaka/Uttara
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Pick your sector by errand. The southern band around Azampur and Jashimuddin keeps mid-range beds beside the shops, restaurants and the Uttara North metro entrance, so it suits travellers who want the airport close and the city a train ride away. Diabari feels newer and quieter.
Out toward the Turag River the plots open up around the metro depot, calmer than the core but short on hotels, so most visitors sleep near Azampur and the airport road rather than the western edge.
About Dhaka/Uttara
What are the main landmarks in Dhaka/Uttara?
The township itself is the landmark. Straight sector roads and roundabouts fan out from Rajlakshmi and Azampur, and the elevated line of the Dhaka Metro Rail runs the length of the district to its northern terminus at Uttara North, with the depot and viaduct anchoring Diabari at the western sectors. Uttara University sits among the blocks.
Housing schemes such as Rupayan City rise on the outer plots toward Abdullahpur, where the highway peels off north for Gazipur past the edge of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
What is the history of Dhaka/Uttara?
The district began on the drawing board. RAJUK, the capital development authority, planned Uttara as a satellite town on farmland north of the old city in 1966, and the first sectors filled through later decades as Dhaka pushed outward toward the Turag River and the airport. Growth came in phases.
Numbered sectors, roundabouts and schools spread across the fields, Uttara University opened among them, and the arrival of the Dhaka Metro Rail terminus at Uttara North tied the once-outlying township firmly to the centre of Dhaka.
Where is Dhaka/Uttara?
Uttara spreads across flat sectors in the far north of Dhaka, bounded by the Turag River to the west and Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to the south, with Abdullahpur marking the highway edge toward Gazipur.
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Updated July 2026