It is the largest municipality in Dhaka Division in the city proper.

Faridpur is named after Shah Farid (Sheikh Fariduddin), disciple of the famous saint and dervish Khwaja Main Chishti and famous Sufi saint of Faridpur.

[1][2] Faridpur is Bangladesh's proposed ninth division & thirteenth city corporation.

Faridpur had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 81.87%, compared to the national average of 74.8%, and a sex ratio of 998 females per 1000 males.

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