Dhaka is also supremely industrialized, which plays a key role in the skyrocketing population growth and the daily tidal wave of commuters, WorldAtlas concludes. Dhaka remains not only the country's ...

Global Liveability Index reveals a stable average score, yet declining stability due to conflicts. While healthcare and ...

Gleaming metro rails and expressways promise transformation, but they have not solved the city’s biggest problems — polluted air, constant traffic jams, overflowing sewage, weak healthcare, and a brok ...

In the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Index 2025, Dhaka slipped three notches to 171st out of 173 cities, compared to 168th in 2024 and 166th the year before ...

By 2100, hospitalizations from diarrheal diseases are predicted to increase in the city of Dhaka in Bangladesh as a result of climate change, even if global warming stays under 2°C. Farhana Haque ...

Per the 2025 Global Liveability Index, Karachi in Pakistan ranked 134 and Dhaka in Bangladesh ranked 139. While Karachi's overall rating stands at 38.7, Dhaka was given a 33 rating.

While Dhaka is one of the world’s least motorised cities, with only about 127 vehicles per 1,000 residents, it is also one of the most densely populated, with an inadequate and unplanned road ...

Even at midnight, with few cars on the road, the trip in Dhaka—the slowest city in the world—is still 30 minutes, or three times as long as the trip in Flint, the world’s fastest. More From TIME ...

By 2100, hospitalizations from diarrheal diseases are predicted to increase in the city of Dhaka in Bangladesh as a result of climate change, even if global warming stays under 2 degrees Celsius.

Researchers used data from Google Maps to analyse traffic in more than 1,000 global cities with populations over 300,000. Shutterstock Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh is the slowest city in the world ...