Cantonment Thana
Cantonment Thana is a Thana of Dhaka district in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It includes the Army Headquarters, Naval Headquarters and the Air Force Headquarters. Cantonment Thana was formed in 1976.
Geography
Cantonment is located at. It has 36540 units of household and total area 14.47 km2.Demographics
According to the 2022 Bangladeshi census, Cantonment Thana had 33,651 households and a population of 135,785. 6.98% of the population were under 5 years of age. Cantonment had a literacy rate of 94.30%: 95.80% for males and 92.59% for females, and a sex ratio of 113.09 males for every 100 females.According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, Cantonment Thana had 25,198 households with an average household size of 4.42 and a population of 131,864. Males constituted 57.03% of the population while females 42.97%. Cantonment Thana had a literacy rate of 84.9%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 133.There were 264 floating people in this jurisdiction.
The religious breakdown was Muslim 98.00%, Hindu 1.40%, Christian 0.39%, Buddhist 0.17%, and others 0.04%. The ethnic minority people living there were 144 people in total.