Khulna (division)

খুলনা বিভাগ Khulna
Basic data
Country	Bangladesh
Capital	Khulna
surface	22,273.2 km²
Residents	17,252,000 (2016)
density	775 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BD-D
Website	khulnadiv.gov.bd (Bengali)

Coordinates: 23 ° 0 '  N , 89 ° 15'  E

The Khulna division ( Bengali : খুলনা বিভাগ , Khulnā bibhāg ) is one of eight administrative units in Bangladesh , which are superordinate to the districts and named after their largest city. The area covers 22,273.21 km². It is located in the southwest of the country. The division has a population of around 17 million. The administrative capital is the city of the same name, Khulna .

The Khulna division borders in the north on the administrative unit Rajshahi , in the east on Dhaka and Barishal , in the south on the Bay of Bengal and in the west on the Indian state of West Bengal .

The administrative unit consists of ten districts and has 28 city administrations and numerous local sub-administrative categories. The districts are: Bagerhat , Chuadanga , Jessore , Jhenaidah , Khulna , Kushtia , Magura , Meherpur , Narail and Satkhira .

Within the administrative unit in the districts Satkhira, Bagerhat and Khulna, are the Sundarbans , the delta area of passage (in Bangladesh Padma ) and Brahmaputra (in Bangladesh Jamuna ).

With the division of British India in 1947. India was different from the other division ideology of the Muslim-majority West Bengal district Murshidabad , since an important tributary of the Ganges to the River Hooghly is that for the navigability of the river and thus indirectly for the Port of Calcutta important is. As compensation, the Khulna district at that time, although it had a Hindu majority, was defeated to form East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

Population development

year	population
1991 census	12,688,383
2001 census	14,705,229
2011 census	15,687,759
2016 estimate	17,252,000

Web links

• Article on the Khulna Division by Sajahan Miah at Banglapedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Melitta Waligora: The border between India and Bangladesh as a conflict zone . South Asia Chronicle - South Asia Chronicle 2/2012, pp. 235-270; South Asia Seminar at the Humboldt University in Berlin ISBN 978-3-86004-286-1 ( pdf )
2. ↑ Bangladesh: Districts and Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .