Khulna District
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Key facts
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Division
- Khulna
- Headquarters
- Khulna
- Deputy commissioner
- Mohammad Helal Hossain, PAA
- Total
- 4,394.45 km (1,696.71 sq mi)
- Density
- 594.701/km (1,540.27/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00 ( BST )
- Area code
- 041
- Iso 3166 code
- BD-27
- Hdi 2019
- 0.690 , medium · 3rd of 20
- Website
- www .dckhulna .gov .bd
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Khulna District upazila geocode map
Khulna District (Bengali: খুলনা জেলা) is a district of Bangladesh. It is located in the Khulna Division, bordered in the north by Jashore District and Narail District, in the south by the Bay of Bengal, in the east by Bagerhat District, and the west by Satkhira District. It was the first sub-division of the United Bengal Province established in 1842. On 1 June 1882, by notification of the official gazette published from Kolkata, Khulna and Bagerhat sub-division of Jashore district and Satkhira sub-division of 24 Parganas district together formed the new district of Khulna.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khulna District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.