The city has fourteen districts, one for each industry: Tech, Pharma, Fashion and RMG, Food, Finance, Manufacturing and the rest. Inside each district, streets are lines of business. In Tech you will find a software services street, a fintech street and an e-learning street; in Manufacturing there are streets for steel, cement, jute and more.
So if you know what a company does, you already know roughly where to find it.
A team of up to ten gets a two-storey building. As the team grows, the building grows with it, up to eighteen floors for companies with more than a thousand people. When an owner updates their team size, their building gets taller.
Shops in the Bazaar stay shops, never office towers, but they grow too: a two-storey duplex shop for a small team, a premium store from fifty people, a flagship store from two hundred, and a megastore for the biggest online sellers. Each shop has its own design: a duplex, a shophouse, a container shop, a glass pavilion or a glass flagship.
Companies founded before 1995 stand in red brick. Those founded between 1995 and 2011 are concrete. Anything from 2012 onwards is glass.
Walk down any street and you can read its history at a glance: the old brick firms that built the industry, and the glass newcomers changing it.
The sky follows the clock in Dhaka. Open the city in the morning and the sun is up; come back after maghrib and the windows are lit. Wherever you are in the world, you see the city as it would look in Bangladesh right now.
A new building does not appear overnight. Within a day of listing, a site billboard goes up on the plot with the company's name. Then the building rises floor by floor over the year: first a foundation pit, then a concrete frame in bamboo scaffolding and green safety net, with a tower crane beside it. Shops in the Bazaar take about two weeks, behind blue tarpaulin. Look for the cranes and you will see who is moving in.
Most buildings are listed by their owners. Some well-known companies are added from public information so the city reflects the real economy. Those are marked as unclaimed and show no contact details.
If an unclaimed building is yours, you can claim it. We check every claim by hand before handing the listing over.
The 3D city needs a reasonably modern phone or computer. If yours struggles, or your data is running low, open Explore: the same companies as a plain, fast list you can search and filter by district.
No. Districts are industries, not places. A company's real address is shown on its own page.
Height follows team size, and two floors means a team of up to ten. If your team has grown, update your team size and the building will grow too.
Your district and street come from your industry and line of business. Within that street, buildings are placed by the city's layout, not by hand.