Sylhet District
Sylhet District, located in north-east Bangladesh, is one of the four districts in Sylhet Division, which contains Sylhet, the regional capital.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district of Bangladesh with 3,860,000 residents
- Description: district (zila) in its namesake division in Bangladesh
- Also known as: “Sylhet”, “Sylhet Jela”, and “Sylhet Zila”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kumargaon Power Plant.
Kumargaon Power Plant
Power station
Sylhet power plant popularly known as Kumargaon Power Plant also known as Kumargaon Power Station is a gas turbine power station in Sylhet Sadar Upazila, Sylhet District of Bangladesh. Kumargaon Power Plant is situated 6 km east of Sylhet District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sylhet.
Sylhet
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Sylhet is a metropolitan city in the north eastern region of Bangladesh. It serves as the administrative center for both the Sylhet District and the Sylhet Division.
Sylhet District
- Location: Sylhet Division, Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Sylhet District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة سيلهيت”
- Bengali: “সিলেট জেলা”
- Bishnupriya: “সিলেট জিলা”
- Catalan: “districte de Sylhet”
- Catalan: “Districte de Sylhet”
- Cebuano: “Sylhet”
- Chinese: “Sylhet Koān”
- Chinese: “錫爾赫特縣”
- Chinese: “锡尔赫特县”
- Danish: “Sylhet District”
- Dutch: “Sylhet zila”
- Dutch: “Sylhet”
- Finnish: “Sylhetin kaupunginosa”
- French: “district de Sylhet”
- French: “Sylhet (district)”
- French: “Sylhet (zila)”
- French: “Sylhet”
- French: “zila de Sylhet”
- German: “Sylhet”
- Greek: “Σιλχέτ”
- Gujarati: “સિલ્હેટ જિલ્લો”
- Hebrew: “מחוז סילהט”
- Hindi: “सिलहट जिला”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Sylhet”
- Italian: “distretto di Sylhet”
- Italian: “Distretto di Sylhet”
- Japanese: “シレット県”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಲ್ಹೆತ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “실렛구”
- Latvian: “Siletas apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Sileto apskritis”
- Malay: “Sylhet District”
- Malayalam: “സിൽഹെഡ് ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “सिलेहट जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sylhet Koān”
- Nepali: “सिलेट जिल्ला”
- Newari: “सिलेट जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sylhet distrikt”
- Persian: “ناحیه سلهت”
- Persian: “ناحیه سیلهت”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Sylhet”
- Portuguese: “Sylhet”
- Russian: “Силхет”
- Santali: “ᱥᱤᱞᱮᱴ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Sardinian: “distretto de Sylhet”
- Sinhala: “සයිල්හෙට් දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Slovenian: “Distrikt Silhet”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Sylhet”
- Spanish: “Sylhet Distrito”
- Spanish: “Sylhet”
- Swedish: “Sylhet”
- Sylheti: “ꠍꠤꠞꠤꠅꠐ ꠎꠤꠟꠣ”
- Sylheti: “ꠍꠤꠟꠐ ꠎꠤꠟꠣ”
- Sylheti: “ꠎꠟꠣꠟꠣꠛꠣꠖ ꠎꠤꠟꠣ”
- Tamil: “சில்ஹெட் மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “సిల్హెట్ జిల్లా”
- Thai: “เขตซิลเฮต”
- Turkish: “Silhet”
- Turkish: “Sylhet District”
- Ukrainian: “Сілхет”
- Urdu: “سلہٹ ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Huyện Sylhet”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع سلہٹ”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lamagazi and Mollāgaon.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bāgola Bīl and Abangi Tīla.
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