Sylhet
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 526,000 residents
- Description: city in Bangladesh
- Also known as: “Jalalabad”, “Rājnagar”, “Sileţ”, “Silhatta”, “Sreehatta”, “Srihatta nagara”, “Srihôţţo”, “Sylhet city”, “The city of Srihatta”, and “জালালাবাদ”
- Postal code: 3100
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College and Sylhet Railway Station.
Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College
Hospital
The Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College is a government medical school in Bangladesh, established in 1962. It is located in Sylhet. Originally named "Sylhet Medical College", it was renamed in 1986 in the honour of General Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani, commander-in-chief of Bangladesh Army during the Bangladesh War of Independence of 1971.
Sylhet Railway Station
Railway station
Sylhet railway station is a railway station in Bangladesh. There are two types of rail lines in Bangladesh Meter gauge and Broad gauge. This station is connected with meter-gauge link on both sides from Chhatak and Dhaka.
Ali Amjad’s Clock
Clock
Photo: shafqatrabbi, CC BY 2.0.
Ali Amjad's Clock is the oldest clock tower of Bangladesh and lies on the north bank of the Surma River in the northeastern city of Sylhet. The tower was founded by Nawab Ali Ahmad Khan of Prithimpassa in 1872 and named after his son, Nawab Ali Amjad Khan.
Sylhet
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Sylhet Sadar Upazila, Sylhet District, Sylhet Division, Northeastern Bangladesh, Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.8992° or 24° 53′ 57″ northLongitude
91.8685° or 91° 52′ 7″ eastPopulation
526,000Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)IATA airport code
ZYLUnited Nations Location Code
BD ZYLOpen location code
7MPHVVX9+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 264490438OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1185099Wikidata ID
Q466221
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Sylhet” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sylhet”
- Arabic: “سلهت”
- Arabic: “سيلهت”
- Armenian: “Սիլհեթ”
- Assamese: “চিলেট চহৰ”
- Assamese: “চিলেট”
- Assamese: “শ্ৰীহাট নগৰ”
- Asturian: “Sylhet”
- Azerbaijani: “Silhet”
- Basque: “Sylhet”
- Belarusian: “Сілхет”
- Bengali: “সিলেট”
- Bishnupriya: “সিলেট”
- Catalan: “Silhet”
- Catalan: “Sylhet”
- Cebuano: “Sylhet (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Sylhet”
- Chinese: “夕列特”
- Chinese: “錫爾赫特”
- Chinese: “錫爾赫特市”
- Chinese: “錫萊特”
- Chinese: “锡尔赫特”
- Chinese: “锡尔赫特市”
- Chinese: “锡莱特”
- Czech: “Silét”
- Czech: “Šríhatta”
- Czech: “Sylhet”
- Danish: “Sylhet”
- Dutch: “Sylhet”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سلهت”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيلهيت”
- Esperanto: “Silheto”
- Finnish: “Sylhet”
- French: “Silhet”
- French: “Sylhet”
- Galician: “Sylhet”
- Georgian: “სილჰეტი”
- German: “Sylhet”
- Greek: “Σιλέτ”
- Gujarati: “સિલહેટ”
- Hebrew: “סילהט”
- Hebrew: “סילט (עיר)”
- Hebrew: “סילט”
- Hebrew: “סילת”
- Hindi: “सिलहट”
- Hindi: “सिलेट नगर निगम”
- Hungarian: “Szilet”
- Hungarian: “Szilhet”
- Indonesian: “Sylhet”
- Irish: “Sylhet”
- Italian: “Sylhet”
- Japanese: “ジャララバード”
- Japanese: “シルヘト”
- Japanese: “シレット”
- Kalaallisut: “Sylhet”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಲಹಟ್”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಲ್ಹೆಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Силхет”
- Korean: “실렛”
- Latvian: “Sileta”
- Latvian: “Silota”
- Lithuanian: “Silet”
- Lithuanian: “Silhat”
- Lithuanian: “Silhatas”
- Lithuanian: “Silhetas”
- Lithuanian: “Sylhet”
- Macedonian: “Силет”
- Maithili: “सिलेट सहर”
- Malay: “Sylhet”
- Malayalam: “സിൽഹെറ്റ്”
- Maori: “Sylhet”
- Marathi: “सिलहट”
- Moksha: “Силгэт”
- Nepali: “सिलेट सहर”
- Nepali: “सिलेट”
- Northern Frisian: “Sylhet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sylhet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sylhet”
- Norwegian: “Sylhet”
- Persian: “سرحت”
- Persian: “سلهت”
- Persian: “سیلت”
- Persian: “سیلهت”
- Polish: “Srihotto”
- Polish: “Sylhet”
- Portuguese: “Sylhet”
- Romanian: “Sylhet”
- Russian: “Силхет”
- Scots: “Sylhet”
- Sicilian: “Sylhet”
- Sinhala: “සිල්හෙට්”
- Slovenian: “Silhet”
- Spanish: “Sylhet”
- Sundanese: “Sylhet”
- Swedish: “Silhat”
- Swedish: “Sylhet”
- Sylheti: “Silôţ”
- Sylheti: “ꠉꠂꠠ ꠘꠉꠞꠤ”
- Sylheti: “ꠉꠂꠠꠅ ꠘꠉꠞ”
- Sylheti: “ꠍ꠆ꠞꠤꠅꠐ꠆ꠐ ꠘꠉꠞ”
- Sylheti: “ꠍ꠆ꠞꠤꠅꠐ꠆ꠐ ꠘꠉꠞꠤ”
- Sylheti: “ꠍꠤꠞꠤꠅꠐ ꠘꠉꠞ”
- Sylheti: “ꠍꠤꠟꠐ ꠘꠉꠞ”
- Sylheti: “ꠍꠤꠟꠐ ꠘꠉꠞꠤ”
- Sylheti: “ꠎꠟꠣꠟ ꠀꠛꠣꠖ”
- Tamil: “சில்ஹெட்”
- Telugu: “సిల్హేట్”
- Thai: “สิเลฏ”
- Turkish: “Sylhet”
- Ukrainian: “Сілгет”
- Ukrainian: “Сілет”
- Ukrainian: “Сілхет”
- Urdu: “سلہٹ”
- Venetian: “Sylhet”
- Vietnamese: “Sylhet”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sylhet”
- Welsh: “Sylhet”
- Western Panjabi: “سلہٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “锡尔赫特市”
- Yue Chinese: “錫爾赫特”
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