Sonargaon is located in Bangladesh.
This place is 27 km from Dhaka.
Sonargaon was the administrative center of East Bengal during the medieval period.
Sonargaon was founded by Hindu rulers in the 13th century, meaning Golden Village.
In the 14th century, a ruler named Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah declared Sonargaon as the capital of Bengal.
Sonargaon remained the administrative center of East Bengal until the Mughal rulers shifted the capital to Dhaka in the 17th century.
