Sylhet District
Sign in to savedistrict (zila) in its namesake division in Bangladesh
Key facts
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Division
- Sylhet Division
- Headquarters
- Sylhet
- Deputy commissioner
- Sarwar Alam
- Total
- 3,452.07 km (1,332.85 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,117.34/km (2,893.89/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Sylhetis
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00 ( BST )
- Area code
- 0821
- Iso 3166 code
- BD-60
- Hdi 2018
- 0.596 , medium · 11th of 21
- Website
- sylhet .gov .bd
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Bangladesh
- Official name
- সিলেট জেলা
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Located in
- Eastern Bengal and Assam
- Capital
- Sylhet
- Population
- 3857123
- Area
- 853026
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Shares border with
- Habiganj District
- Official website
- www.sylhet.gov.bd
- Image
- ꠍꠤꠟꠐ ꠎꠤꠟꠣ.jpg
- Households
- 596081
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- topic's main category
- Category:Sylhet District
- Commons category
- Sylhet District
- language used
- Meitei
- male population
- 1726965
- female population
- 1707223
- name
- সিলেট জেলা
- P12749
- Schoondijke
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Sylhet District (Bengali: সিলেট জেলা), located in north-east Bangladesh, is one of the four districts in Sylhet Division, which contains Sylhet, the regional capital.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sylhet District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.