Introduction: Malnutrition is an alarming cause of infant and under 5 years mortality in developing country like Bangladesh for the last few centuries. Objectives: To assess the nutritional status of under-5 children in the selected villages of Faridpur. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 184 purposively selected under five children of Kharagpur and Vajondanga village for a period of four months (November-2021 to February- 2022). After obtaining verbal consent from respondants data were collected by face-to-face interview through a pretested questionnaire as well as anthropometric profile also measured and noted down in checklist. Then data were checked, cleaned and analyzed accordingly. Results: Among the children 54 were female and 46 were male. More than one third (34.2%) were belonging to 48-60 months age group and 9.2% were below one years of age. Highest (35.9%) number of respondents had weight between 10 to 15 kg. Among the total respondents 70.7% had a height of equal or below 100 cm and no child showed the signs of edema. According to Welcomes classification most (82.0%) of the children were found normal, 9.8% had Marasmus, 8.2% were in undernutrition group. According to MUAC, majority (83.0%) of the respondents were normal and 1% had severe malnutrition and the rest 6% had mild to moderate malnutrition. Birth orders of more than two, more than 2 siblings, low monthly family income, maternal illiteracy, maternal occupation and inappropriate feeding habit were associated factors of malnutrition(p<0.001). Conclusion: From this result it is evidenced that, the nutritional status of under 5 years children is which is a positive sign of health status for a developing country like Bangladesh.