Mymensingh City Corporation

Mymensingh City Corporation is the municipal corporation of the city of Mymensingh, Bangladesh. The city is located about 120 km north of Dhaka, the capital of the country.

Mymensingh Municipality was upgraded to a city corporation, the country's 12th, on 2 April 2018 at a meeting of the National Implementation Committee on Administrative Reforms (NICAR), after satisfying all eight criteria for forming a city corporation. At the time, Cabinet Division Secretary (Coordination and Reforms) NM Ziaul Alam declared that the new city corporation would consist of Mymensingh Municipality, two whole union parishads, and parts of six others, out of the thirteen union parishads of Mymensingh Sadar Upazila. Mymensingh Municipality had an estimated 2018 population of 471,858 in an area of 91.315 km2.

History
In September 2011, the Mymensingh Zila Nagorik Andolon campaigned to turn Mymensingh into the divisional capital and a city corporation. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced plans to turn Mymensingh into a city corporation in January 2013. Mymensingh city was made the capital of the newly formed Mymensingh division, which was the 8th division of Bangladesh. On 20 November 2017 the National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reorganisation decided to make Mymensingh into a city corporation. The incumbent mayor is the Municipality Mayor Ekramul Haque Titu. Mymensingh has not held an election since being turned into a city corporation.