Barisal Division
Barisal District
Barisal Sadar Upazila

Barisal

Barisal, officially known as Barishal, is a major city that lies on the banks of the Kirtankhola river in south-central . It is the largest city and the administrative headquarter of both and .
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  • Type: City with 339,000 residents
  • Description: city in Bangladesh
  • Also known as: “Barīsal Sadar” and “Barishal”
Photo: Avibd, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bell’s Park and Barisal zilla school.

Park
Bangabandhu Udyan popularly known as Bell's Park is a historic urban park and recreation area situated at the heart of Barisal, a city in south-central Bangladesh.

School
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Barishal Zilla School, popularly known as BZS, is a educational institution for boys, located in Barisal, in south-central . It was the first high school established in .

Monument
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is a monument.

Barisal

Latitude
22.7048° or 22° 42′ 17″ north
Longitude
90.3707° or 90° 22′ 15″ east
Population
339,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
BZL
United Nations Location Code
BD BZL
Open location code
7MJGP93C+W7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5513599593
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1336137
Wiki­data ID
Q747840
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Barisal” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باريسال”
  • Arabic: “بريسال”
  • Asturian: “Barisal”
  • Basque: “Barisal”
  • Belarusian: “Барысал”
  • Bengali: “বরিশাল”
  • Bulgarian: “Барисал”
  • Catalan: “Barisal”
  • Cebuano: “Barisāl (kapital sa lalawigan sa Bangladesh)”
  • Cebuano: “Barisāl”
  • Chinese: “博里萨尔”
  • Chinese: “博里薩爾”
  • Chinese: “巴里薩爾”
  • Chinese: “巴里薩爾市”
  • Czech: “Barišál”
  • Danish: “Barisal”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Barisal”
  • Dutch: “Barisal”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باريسال”
  • Esperanto: “Barizalo”
  • Finnish: “Barisal”
  • French: “Barisal”
  • French: “Barishal”
  • Georgian: “ბარისალი”
  • German: “Barisal”
  • German: “Barishal”
  • Greek: “Μπορισάλ”
  • Gujarati: “બારિસલ”
  • Hebrew: “בורישל”
  • Hindi: “बरिशाल”
  • Indonesian: “Barisal”
  • Irish: “Barishal”
  • Italian: “Barisal”
  • Japanese: “バリサル”
  • Kalaallisut: “Barisal”
  • Kannada: “ಬರಿಶಾಲ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಯಾರಿಸಲ್”
  • Kashmiri: “بریشال”
  • Korean: “바리살”
  • Latvian: “Barisala”
  • Lithuanian: “Barisal”
  • Lithuanian: “Barisalas”
  • Lithuanian: “Barisalis”
  • Maithili: “बरिसाल”
  • Malay: “Barisal”
  • Malayalam: “ബാരിസാൽ”
  • Maori: “Barisal”
  • Marathi: “बरिशाल”
  • Marathi: “बारिसाल”
  • Nepali: “बरिसाल”
  • Northern Frisian: “Barishal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barisal”
  • Norwegian: “Barisal”
  • Persian: “باریسال”
  • Persian: “باریشال”
  • Polish: “Barisal”
  • Polish: “Boriszal”
  • Portuguese: “Barisal”
  • Romanian: “Barisal”
  • Russian: “Барисал”
  • Sinhala: “බරිසල්”
  • Slovenian: “Barisal”
  • Spanish: “Barisal”
  • Sundanese: “Barisal”
  • Swedish: “Barisal”
  • Tamil: “பரிசல்”
  • Tamil: “பரிசால்”
  • Telugu: “బరిసల్”
  • Thai: “บอรีชัล”
  • Turkish: “Barisal”
  • Ukrainian: “Барісал”
  • Urdu: “بریشال”
  • Venetian: “Barisal”
  • Vietnamese: “Barisal”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Barisal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barisal”
  • Western Panjabi: “باریسال”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴里萨尔市”

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