Badalgachi is a Upazila of Naogaon District

Naogaon District

Naogaon is a district in Northern Bangladesh. It is a part of the Rajshahi Division.-Upazilas:The district is divided into the following upazilas:*Naogaon Sadar Upazila*Manda Upazila*Niamatpur Upazila*Atrai Upazila*Raninagar Upazila...

 in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

. It consists of 36,614 households and has a total area of 213.98 square kilometres (82.6 sq mi).

As of 1991, Badalgachi has a population of 176,010. Males constitute are 51.34% of the population, and females 48.66%. Badalgachi has an average literacy

Literacy

Literacy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material.Literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from print...

rate of 28.4% for persons seven years and older, which is below the national average of 32.4%.