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.
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Wikipedia
  • 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”, “Barishal District”, “BD-06”, “Distrito de barisal”, “Quận Barisal”, “Округ Барісал”, and “مديرية باريسال”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Barisal District

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
Geo­Names ID
1185286
Wiki­data ID
Q1763301
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Barisal District” goes by many names.
  • 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: “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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Urdu: “باریسال ضلع”
  • Urdu: “ضلع بریسال”
  • Vietnamese: “Huyện Barisal”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع باریسال”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴里萨尔县”

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