Back إقليم كهلنا Arabic Кхулна Bulgarian খুলনা বিভাগ Bengali/Bangla খুলনা বিভাগ BPY Divisió de Khulna Catalan Khulna Division CEB Khulna (Division) German Διαίρεση Χούλνα Greek Ĥulno (regiono) EO División de Khulna Spanish
Khulna Division
খুলনা বিভাগ Jahanabad | |
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    .jpg)  Clockwise from the top: Sixty Dome Mosque, Mujibnagar, Shilaidaha Kuthibadi, Harihar River at Manirampur, KUET and Sundarbans at Shyamnagar | |
| Nickname: Gateway to the Sundarbans | |
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| Coordinates: 22°55′N 89°15′E / 22.917°N 89.250°E | |
| Country |  Bangladesh |
| Established | 1960 |
| Capital and largest city | Khulna |
| Government | |
| • Divisional Commissioner | Md. Hilal Mahmud Sharif[1][2] |
| • Parliamentary constituency | Jatiya Sangsad (36 seats) |
| Area | |
| 22,284.22 km2 (8,603.99 sq mi) | |
| Population | |
| 17,415,924 (Enumerated) | |
| • Urban | 4,312,418 |
| • Rural | 13,102,183 |
| • Metro | 719,465 |
| • Adjusted Population[3] | 17,813,218 |
| Languages | |
| • Official language | Bengali[4] |
| • Indigenous minority languages | |
| Time zone | UTC+6 (Bangladesh Standard Time) |
| ISO 3166 code | BD-D |
| HDI (2018) | 0.641[6] medium |
| Notable sport teams | Khulna Tigers, Khulna Division |
| Website | khulna |
The Khulna Division (Bengali: খুলনা বিভাগ, Khulna Bibhag) is the second largest of the eight divisions of Bangladesh. It has an area of 22,285 km2 (8,604 sq mi) and a population of 17,416,645 at the 2022 Bangladesh census (preliminary returns). Its headquarters and largest city is Khulna city in Khulna District.
- ^ কনটেন্টটি শেয়ার করতে ক্লিক করুন. Khulna Division. Archived from the original on 2023-02-23. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
- ^ "List of Divisional Commissioners". Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
- ^ a b c d e National Report (PDF). Population and Housing Census 2022. Vol. 1. Dhaka: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. November 2023. p. 386. ISBN 978-9844752016.
- ^ "The Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh". Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- ^ "Bangladesh". Ethnologue. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-08.