What is Sylhet Division?

Information about Sylhet Division

Enlarge picture
Map of Sylhet Division


Sylhet (Srihatta) division is the Northeastern division (bibhag) of Bangladesh, named after its main city, Sylhet. It is bounded by Meghalaya State of India on the north, Tripura State on the south, Assam State of India on the east and Dhaka and Chittagong divisions on the west.

Geography and Climate

Sylhet division is located in north-eastern Bangladesh.Major rivers include Surma, Kushiyara, Manu etc.

Civic Administration

In 1995, Sylhet was declared the 6th division of the country. Prior to that it was part of the Chittagong division.

The Sylhet division is subdivided into 4 districts (zila): Habiganj, Maulvibazar, Sunamganj and Sylhet. Further, the Sylhet division contains 35 sub-districts (upazila/thana), 323 unions, 10185 villages and 14 municipalities.

Population: approximately 8 million.

Religion and Faith

Sylhet is a holy place for both Muslim and Hindus.It is a land of 360 awliyas. Notable Hindu saint Sree Chaitanya Dev was born in Dhaka Daksin situated in Sylhet division. Famous religious places include, the shrine of Hazrat Shah Jalal (R) and the shrine of Hajrat Shah Paran (R) for Muslim. Hindu temples like Sree Chaitanya Dev Mandir, Kali Mandir of Jainpur, Shakti Piths temple of Kirit Devi Kamala, Bagala Matar Mandir of Habiganj and Kalibari of Jaintiapur are known throughout the Indian Subcontinent.[1]

Followers of Differenr religion are: Muslim 81.16%, Hindu 17.80%, Christian 0.06%, Buddhist 0.02% and others 0.96%.

Notable personalities

References

External links


 •  • [ e]
Divisions and districts of Bangladesh
Barisāl DivisionBarguna Barisal Bhola Jhalokati Patuakhali Pirojpur
Enlarge picture
Geography of Bangladesh
Chittagong DivisionBandarban Brahmanbaria Chandpur Chittagong Comilla Cox's Bazar Feni Khagrachari Lakshmipur Noakhali Rangamati
Dhaka DivisionDhaka Faridpur Gazipur Gopalganj Jamalpur Kishoreganj Madaripur Manikganj Munshiganj Mymensingh Narayanganj Narsingdi Netrakona Rajbari Shariatpur Sherpur Tangail
Khulna DivisionBagerhat Chuadanga Jessore Jhenaidah Khulna Kushtia Magura Meherpur Narail Satkhira
Rajshahi DivisionBogra Dinajpur Gaibandha Jaipurhat Kurigram Lalmonirhat Naogaon Natore Nawabganj Nilphamari Pabna Panchagarh Rajshahi Rangpur Sirajganj Thakurgaon
Sylhet DivisionHabiganj Maulvibazar Sunamganj Sylhet


Coordinates:
Bangladesh

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Bangladesh

  • Constitution
  • 2006–2007 political crisis
  • President
  • Iajuddin Ahmed

..... Read more.
Anthem
Amar Shonar Bangla
My Golden Bengal


Capital
(and largest city) Dhaka

..... Read more.
Sylhet
Location of Sylhet in Bangladesh
Coordinates:
Country Bangladesh
Administrative District Sylhet District
Government
..... Read more.
Coordinates:

Meghalaya pronunciation   (help info ) is a small state in north-eastern India.
..... Read more.
This page is currently protected from editing until disputes have been resolved.
Protection is not an endorsement of the current [ version] ([ protection log]).
..... Read more.
Tripura   (help info ) (Bengali script: ত্রিপুরা) is a state in North-East India.
..... Read more.
Coordinates: Assam pronunciation   (help info ) (Assamese:
..... Read more.
Dhaka Division is an administrative division within Bangladesh. The capital and largest city is Dhaka. The division covers an area of 31,119.97 km², and has a population of 38,678,000 (2000).
..... Read more.
Chittagong Division is one of the six administrative divisions of Bangladesh. It covers the most southern areas of the country and is also the second largest one.

Overview


Area 33,771 sq km Capital Chittagong Population 23,999,345 Literacy rate 32.
..... Read more.
Surma River is a major river in Bangladesh, part of the Surma-Meghna River System. It starts when the Barak River from northeast India divides at the Bangladesh border into the Surma and the Kushiyara rivers.
..... Read more.
The Manu River originates in the mountains of Tripura (India) and plunges downward through dramatic gorges and steep escarpments until it reaches a broad plain where it becomes slow and meandering, going northward until it reaches the Sylhet plains.
..... Read more.
Habiganj District



..... Read more.
Maulvibazar District
Tea gardens of Sreemangal in Molvibazar district


..... Read more.
Sunamganj District



..... Read more.

..... Read more.
Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form of 'Muslim' is Muslimah (Arabic: مسلمة).
..... Read more.
Hindu ( pronunciation   (help info ) , Devanagari: हिन्दु), as per modern definition, is an adherent of the philosophies and scriptures of Hinduism, and the
..... Read more.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (also transliterated Caitanya, IAST caitanya mahāprabhu
..... Read more.
Habiganj is a district in Sylhet, in northeastern Bangladesh. It consists of many other smaller villages. The main ways people of Habiganj tend to have their daily bread is by the "Rickshaw"
..... Read more.
Hason Raja (Bangla: হাসন রাজা) literally Hason the king, was a mystical poet and songwriter in Bengal, now Bangladesh. Born at the end of the 19th century 1854 to a traditional Zamindar or landowner family near Sunamganj, Sylhet,
..... Read more.
Kabi Dilwar (Born on 1 January, 1937 in Sylhet, Bangladesh) is a Bangladeshi poet famous for writing on behalf of the poor and neglected people. He is the only poet known as "Gono Manusher Kabi" which means Poet of the People.
..... Read more.
Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani

Born: 1 September 1918
Sylhet, Bangladesh
Died: 16 February 1984

Occupation: General, Supreme Commander of Bangladesh Armed Forces and Mukti Bahini

Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani, better known by General M.A.G.
..... Read more.
Mukti Bahini (Bengali: মুক্তি বাহিনী) (Liberation Army), also termed as the "Freedom Fighters" or FFs was a guerrilla force which fought against the Pakistan Army
..... Read more.
Syed Mujtaba Ali (Bengali: সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী ) (1904-1974), was a renowned Bangladeshi author, academician, scholar and linguist. He was born in Sunamganj, in East Bengal.
..... Read more.
Abdus Samad Azad (January 15, 1922 – April 27, 2005) was a diplomat and politician from Bangladesh.

Azad was born in Bhurakhali village, Sunamganj district, in what is now Bangladesh.
..... Read more.
Late Humayun Rasheed Choudhury(1928-2001) was a career diplomat, speaker of Bangladesh National Parliament (1996-2001).Humayun Rashid Choudhury was born in sylhet on 11 November 1928.He was elected president of the 41st session of the UN General Assembly 1986.Mr.
..... Read more.
Saifur Rahman (Bengali: ছয়ফুর রহমান) is a Bangladeshi politician, and the former Finance Minister of Bangladesh.
..... Read more.
Shah Abdul Karim is a Bangladeshi musician. His specialized field of music is Bengali Baul music. He lives in the district of Sunamganj. He was rewarded the Ekushey Padok in the year 2001 for his songs, also received Drouhee Kotha-shahitayk Abdur Rouf Choudhury Award in 2000.
..... Read more.
Ragib Ali (born October 10, 1938) is a Bangladeshi leading industrialist, tea-planter, and is also associated with bank, insurance companies, and many other business houses. He is the Chairman of Sylhet Tea Company Ltd. and several other tea estates in Sylhet and Chittagong.
..... Read more.
Shahriar Chowdhury Imon, who used Salman Shah as a Film name, was a Bangladeshi superstar. The name, Salman Shah, evoked an era in the Bangladeshi filmdom. In the early 1990s when the country’s film industry remained stagnant and when vulgarism and weak-script movies
..... Read more.