Gabtali (Bengali: গাবতলী, romanized: Gabtoli) is an upazila of the Bogra District, located in Bangladesh's Rajshahi Division.

It is named after its administrative centre, the town of Gabtali and is best known as the home upazila of Ziaur Rahman, the late President of Bangladesh.

[5] In the Gabtali Fables by Mubarak Ali Akhand, he mentions an incident which took place in circa 1932 when he was 10–12 years old.

It was the day of Eid and the Dakshinpara villagers, including Akhand, set off to offer prayers in the Madhyapara eidgah.

The area is known to have many Gaub trees, and historically in northwestern Gabtali, there were forests and dense vegetation which the locals called ‘Ara’.

In the early 1900s, large jute-laden boats (known as lao in the local dialect) drove from the low lands at the rear of Gabtali Sadar across many towns.

On November 15, a commander of the Bengali freedom fighters was killed during a brawl between the two sides in the village of Daripara in Balia Dighi Union.

The army retreated on December 13, murdering two civilians on the way, leading to another brawl with freedom fighters killing a Pakistani soldier.

Gabtali had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 46.58%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 1008 females per 1000 males.