Bagerhat District


Bagerhat District is a district in South-western Bangladesh. It is a part of the Khulna Division.

Geography

Bagerhat district has a total area of 3959.11 square kilometres. It is bounded by Gopalganj District and Narail District on the north, The Bay of Bengal on the south, Gopalganj District, Pirojpur District and Barguna District on the east and Khulna District on the west. Main rivers of the district are Panguchi, Daratana, Madhumati River, Pasur River, Haringhata, Mongla River, Baleshwar, Bangra and Goshairkhali.

History

Bagerhat is a great historical place. Bagerhat city is famous for its mosques. Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali founded this town. He was just and a great saint of the fifteen century. At the time of his reign, Bagerhat was a part of the Sunderban forest. He cleared the forest and made it habitable. He named it Khalifabad. He erected many official buildings to run his administration. He also built many mosques and dug tanks. The buildings erected by him are now all in ruins. The city of Bagerhat has been given the status of a World Heritage Site. This honour was conferred by UNESCO in 1973.
Located at the confluence of two historical rivers, the Brahmaputra River and the Ganges, Bagerghat is also known as the Mosque City for the presence of a large number of mosques in the district. The domed structures of the mosques built with bricks in the 15th century is considered an architectural marvel.
Bagerhat was declared a district in 1984. The district today is the fourth largest district in Bangladesh at the basis of area.

Economy

One of the two main ports of Bangladesh, Port of Mongla is here.
Rampal and Fakirhat, two upazilas of Bagerhat is known as Qwait of Bangladesh due to its huge production of shrimp and earning a lot of foreign exchange.

Points of interest

District

Bagerhat is divided into 9 upazilas, 77 union parishads, 1031 villages, 687 mouzas, 3 municipalities, 27 wards and 56 mahallas. The upazilas are:

Administration

Administrator of Zila Porishod: Sheikh Kamruzzaman
Deputy Commissioner : Md. Akram Hossain

Transport

Once upon a time there were train communication between Bagerhat & Khulna.
The best way to go to Bagerhat from Dhaka is to take a bus which takes five to eight hours. By air you have to go to Jessore airport then take a bus to the city.

Media

Telecommunications:
The district of Bagerhat consists 7815 mosques, 238 temples, 17 churches and seven tombs. The Sixty Domes Mosque or Shat Gambuj Masjid is famous mosque. Khan Jahan Ali's tomb is the famous tombs.