[4] The neighbourhood is one of the important areas of Dhaka featuring a large number of government and residential complexes.

Segunbagicha is a centre of government office building and institutions[5] including the headquarters of The Directorate General of National Security Intelligence, Anti-Corruption Commission (commonly known as duduk; দুদক),[6] Motsho Bhobon (building of Department of Fisheries), Bangladesh Secretariat, the International Mother Language Institute, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy,[7] the Public Works Department, the Bangladesh Department of Architecture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as several tax zones.

During the British Bengal era, two English officers, Captain Graham and Colonel Stecky built a garden in the area.

Among all the plants in the garden, there were numerous teak trees, called segun (pronounced as shegun) in Bengali.

[9][10][11] According to Bangladeshi writer Qazi Anwar Hossain, there were only a few low-rise buildings in the sparsely populated Segunbagicha in the 1950s.

[13][14] When the country's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was appointed as the first Bengali chairman of the Pakistan Tea Board, he moved to the erstwhile 115 Segunbagicha.

Areas like Moghbazar, Eskaton, Malibagh, Motijheel, Paltan, Shantinagar, Ramna, Bailey Road, Shahbagh neighbourhood, Siddheswari, Dhaka University campus area, New Market and New Elephant Road are also adjacent to Segunbagicha.

[30] The station building is located near the Bangladesh Secretariat, Press Club and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.