Southern Bangladesh

Southern Bangladesh is a region of Bangladesh, consisting of Barisal Division and Khulna Division. The region is known for its rice production, thriving shrimp industry and the Bangladeshi part of the Sundarbans.

Cities

Tomb of Lalan Fakir in Kushtia

• 1 Bagerhat — famous for Shait Gumbad Mosque and other historical sites
• 2 Barisal (Barishal) — capital of Barisal Division, famous for paddy growing and its many small and big rivers
• 3 Benapole — a town at the Indian border
• 4 Chuadanga
• 5 Khulna — capital of Khulna Division, a gateway to the Sundarbans
• 6 Kuakata — picturesque natural beauty, sandy beach, blue sky, a huge expanse of the water of the bay and evergreen forest
• 7 Jessore (Jashore) — birthplace of several Bengali writers
• 8 Kushtia — one of the possible homes of the Bengali saint (baul) Lalan Fakir
• 9 Mongla — a lively town and another base for excursions into the Sundarbans
• 10 Mujibnagar — the historic site of where officials of the First Government of Bangladesh took their oaths in April 1971 at the culmination of the Bangladesh Liberation War, named after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first prime minister of the country
• 11 Sagardari — the birthplace of Bengali sonnet writer and dramatist Michael Madhusudan Dutt along the Kapataksha River

Other destinations

• 1 Sundarbans — Bangladeshi part of the largest littoral mangrove in the world

Get in

By plane

Jessore Airport and Barisal Airport are two of the commercial airports in the region. They have regular service to Dhaka.

By car

You're likely to arrive in this division if you come from Kolkata. The border town of Benapole is the most used and has a couple of hotels but if you can it's more pleasant to forge on and stay in Jessore.

Get around

Numerous rivers and canals force the inhabitants to use boats as the main medium of transportation. The main rivers are the Arial Khan, Bishkhali, Burishwar, Tentulia, Paira, Haringhata, Baleshwar, Kirtankhola, Katcha, and Agunmukha. It is linked by steamer with Dhaka (117 km or 73 mi to the north) and with Chittagong to the southeast. Road communication has improved significantly over last decades with the building of many bridges.

See

Statue representing the signing of the Pakistani Instrument of Surrender at the Mujibnagar Memorial Monument and Complex

Near Jessore, there are many temple complexes, mosques, and what is claimed to be the world's biggest banyan tree

Durga Sagar, the largest lake in southern Bangladesh, is a man-made pond where a number of migratory birds arrive every winter.

Guthia Mosque is a mosque complex having a land area of 5.7 hectares (14 acres).

Go next

• Dhaka Division
• Northern Bangladesh

Article Geo different to Wikidata
Wikivoyage: Latitude 22.5, Longitude 90.333333 (Map, Geohack)
Wikidata: Latitude 22.917, Longitude 89.250 (Map, Geohack)
Difference: 120.5km