Sylhet District
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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
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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.