Barisal District
Barisal District, officially Barishal District or formerly called Bakerganj District, is a district in south-central Bangladesh; it was established as Bakerganj district in 1797.- Type: district of Bangladesh with 2,570,000 residents
- Description: district in its namesake division in Bangladesh
- Also known as: “Backergunge”, “Barisal”, “Barisāl District”, “Barisal Zila”, “Barisāl Zila”, and “Barishal District”
- Neighbors: Barguna District, Gopalganj, Madaripur district, and Patuakhali District
Barisal District
- Location: Barisal Division, Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.8° or 22° 48′ north
Longitude
90.5° or 90° 30′ east
Population
2,570,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
7MJGQGX2+X2
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Barisal District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مديرية باريسال”
- Arabic: “مديرية بريسال”
- Azerbaijani: “Barisal”
- Bengali: “বরিশাল জেলা”
- Bengali: “বরিশাল”
- Bishnupriya: “বরিশাল জিলা”
- Bulgarian: “Барисал (окръг)”
- Bulgarian: “Барисал”
- Catalan: “districte de Barisal”
- Catalan: “Districte de Barisal”
- Cebuano: “Barisal”
- Chinese: “Barisal Koān”
- Chinese: “巴里萨尔县”
- Chinese: “巴里薩爾縣”
- Danish: “Barisal District”
- Dutch: “Barisal”
- Dutch: “district Barisal”
- Finnish: “Barisalin kaupunginosa”
- French: “Barisal”
- German: “Barishal”
- German: “BD-06”
- Greek: “Μπάρισαλ”
- Gujarati: “બારીસાલ જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “बारीसाल जिला”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Barisal”
- Italian: “distretto di Barisal”
- Italian: “Distretto di Barisal”
- Japanese: “バリサル県”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ಯಾರಿಸಲ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Kashmiri: “بریٖسال ضِلہٕ”
- Korean: “바리살구”
- Latvian: “Barisālas apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Barisalio apskritis”
- Malay: “Daerah Barisal”
- Malayalam: “ബാരിസൽ ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “बरीसल जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Barisal Koān”
- Nepali: “बरिशाल जिल्ला”
- Nepali: “बरिसाल जिल्ला”
- Newari: “बरिशाल जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barisal distrikt”
- Persian: “ناحیه باریسال”
- Persian: “ناحیه باریشال”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Barisal”
- Portuguese: “Barisal”
- Portuguese: “Borixal”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de barisal”
- Russian: “Барисал”
- Santali: “ᱵᱚᱨᱤᱥᱟᱞ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Sardinian: “distretto de Barisal”
- Sinhala: “බරිසාල් දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Spanish: “Barisal (zila)”
- Spanish: “Barisal”
- Swedish: “Barisal distriktet”
- Swedish: “Barisal”
- Tamil: “பரிசல் மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “பரிசால் மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “బారిసాల్ జిల్లా”
- Thai: “เขตบาริซาล”
- Turkish: “Barisal District”
- Turkish: “Barisal”
- Ukrainian: “Барісал (округ)”
- Ukrainian: “Барісал”
- Ukrainian: “Округ Барісал”
- Urdu: “باریسال ضلع”
- Urdu: “ضلع بریسال”
- Vietnamese: “Huyện Barisal”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Barisal”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع باریسال”
- Wu Chinese: “巴里萨尔县”
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