Kishoreganj District
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district in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
Key facts
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Division
- Dhaka
- Headquarters
- Kishoreganj
- District council chairman
- Khaled Saifullah khan sohel (Bangladesh Nationalist Party)
- Deputy commissioner
- Aslam mollah
- Chief executive officer
- Muhammad Abdullah
- Total
- 2,688.53 km (1,038.05 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,215.40/km (3,147.86/sq mi)
- Demonym s
- Kishoreganji, Kishoregonji
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00 ( BST )
- Area code
- 0941
- Iso 3166 code
- BD-26
- Hdi 2018
- 0.562 , medium · 19th of 21
- Website
- www .kishoreganj .gov .bd
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Bangladesh
- Official name
- কিশোরগঞ্জ জেলা
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Located in
- Dhaka Division
- Contains
- Tarail Upazila
- Capital
- Kishoreganj
- Population
- 3267626
- Area
- 2689
- Elevation
- 11
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Shares border with
- Gazipur District
- Official website
- www.kishoreganj.gov.bd
- Image
- ꠇꠤꠡꠥꠞꠉꠘ꠆ꠎ ꠎꠤꠟꠣ.jpg
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- Kishoreganj District
- native label
- কিশোরগঞ্জ জেলা
- postal code
- 2300
- name
- ꠇꠤꠡꠥꠞꠉꠘ꠆ꠎ ꠎꠤꠟꠣ
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Encyclopedic overview
Kishoreganj District (Bengali: কিশোরগঞ্জ জেলা) is a district in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. The establishment of the Kishorganj began with 2495.07 km of land requisition from Mymensingh district to form Kishoreganj District. Earlier it was a mahakuma (sub-division) under Mymensingh district. Kishorganj consists of Ten municipalities, 13 upazilas, 105 union parishads, 39 wards, 145 mahallas, 946 mouzas, and 1775 villages.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kishoreganj District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.