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Antenatal care (ANC) is one of the programs to achieve the Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5. Antenatal care (ANC) has important positions as this is directly related with maternal morbidity and mortality. Antenatal care have to take complete physical check-up at regular intervals and early detection of deviation from the normal and their proper intervention or timely therapy. In addition counseling and advice of mother about various aspects like personal hygiene, nutrition, rest & sleep, travelling, birth spacing, place of delivery, exclusive breastfeeding, complementary feeding and postnatal care about their children. Therefore, it is very important to identify the existing outcome of mothers awareness gained through antenatal care who are living both rural and urban area, whether the ANC services successful achieve or not. However the present study has conducted to assess the awareness of rural and urban mothers regarding antenatal care; to find out the impact of awareness of rural and urban mothers regarding ANC; to examine the relationship between the awareness and impact on ANC of mothers; and to determine the level of awareness and impact of antenatal care of the mothers. It was a cross sectional descriptive study. The study was conducted in selected different Hospitals at Dinajpur district in Bangladesh. Purposive sampling method was used for the study. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources. Primary data were collected from the respondents of study area. Secondary data were collected from books, research report, journals and internet. Questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were collected through face to face interview with questionnaire and secondary data were collected by reviewing books, research report, journals and internet etc. This study revealed that most of the respondents had excellent knowledge about antenatal care and few had good knowledge on antenatal care of pregnant women admitted at different Hospitals at Dinajpur district in Bangladesh. This study revealed that one fourth of the respondents had no knowledge about blurring vision is a warning sign during pregnancy, one fifth of the respondents had no knowledge about radiation hazards during pregnancy, one third of the respondents had no knowledge about leg edema is a warning sign during pregnancy, half of the respondents had no knowledge about Rh-negative status is a warning sign during pregnancy. We should suggest them to continue taking care and regular antenatal check-up because every pregnant woman must have adequate knowledge about her own physical and emotional health as well as optimal health of the unborn child. The knowledge can be achieved properly through regular antenatal care. That will help the mother to have a healthy baby at the end of the pregnancy.