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href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%97" title="সিলেট বিভাগ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সিলেট বিভাগ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylhet_Hun-khu" title="Sylhet Hun-khu – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Sylhet Hun-khu" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%85%D0%B5%D1%82" title="Силхет – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Силхет" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisi%C3%B3_de_Sylhet" title="Divisió de Sylhet – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Divisió de Sylhet" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylhet_Division" title="Sylhet Division – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Sylhet Division" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylhet_(Division)" title="Sylhet (Division) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sylhet (Division)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylheti_jaotis" title="Sylheti jaotis – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Sylheti jaotis" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%AF%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%A3%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%AD%CF%84" title="Διαίρεση Σιλέτ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Διαίρεση Σιλέτ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisi%C3%B3n_de_Sylhet" title="División de Sylhet – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="División de Sylhet" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silheto_(regiono)" title="Silheto (regiono) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Silheto (regiono)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylhet_(bibhag)" title="Sylhet (bibhag) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Sylhet (bibhag)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%87%D8%AA" title="استان سلهت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="استان سلهت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylhet_(division)" title="Sylhet (division) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Sylhet (division)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A4%EB%A0%9B%EC%A3%BC" title="실렛주 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="실렛주" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97" title="सिलहट विभाग – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="सिलहट विभाग" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%97" title="সিলেট বিভাগ – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="সিলেট বিভাগ" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisi_Sylhet" title="Divisi Sylhet – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Divisi Sylhet" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisione_di_Sylhet" title="Divisione di Sylhet – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Divisione di Sylhet" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silheto_sritis" title="Silheto sritis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Silheto sritis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97" title="सिलहट विभाग – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="सिलहट विभाग" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylhet_(divisie)" title="Sylhet (divisie) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sylhet (divisie)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97" title="सिलेट विभाग – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="सिलेट विभाग" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97" title="सिलेट विभाग – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="सिलेट विभाग" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E7%AE%A1%E5%8C%BA" title="シレット管区 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="シレット管区" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylhet_(Diwisioon)" title="Sylhet (Diwisioon) – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Sylhet (Diwisioon)" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylhet_(divisjon)" title="Sylhet (divisjon) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sylhet (divisjon)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%81%D9%B9_%DA%88%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%98%D9%86" title="سلہٹ ڈویژن – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="سلہٹ ڈویژن" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%87%D9%BC_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA" title="سلهټ ولایت – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="سلهټ ولایت" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srihotto_(prowincja)" title="Srihotto (prowincja) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Srihotto (prowincja)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylhet_(divis%C3%A3o)" title="Sylhet (divisão) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sylhet (divisão)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%85%D0%B5%D1%82_(%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C)" title="Силхет (область) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Силхет (область)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%B4_%E1%B1%A0%E1%B1%B7%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%B8%E1%B1%B0" title="ᱥᱤᱞᱮᱴ ᱠᱷᱚᱸᱰ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱥᱤᱞᱮᱴ ᱠᱷᱚᱸᱰ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylhet_Diveesion" title="Sylhet Diveesion – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Sylhet Diveesion" data-language-autonym="Scots" 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.infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Sylhet Division</div> <div class="nickname ib-settlement-native" lang="syl">সিলেট বিভাগ<br /> ꠍꠤꠟꠐ ꠛꠤꠜꠣꠉ</div><div class="nickname ib-settlement-other-name">Śilhôṭ-Jalalabad</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/Divisions_of_Bangladesh" title="Divisions of Bangladesh">Division of Bangladesh </a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="background-color:white;border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid white;width:280px;display:table;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><div style="display:table-row"><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:1px 0 0 1px"><div style="display:table;background-color:white;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="display:table-row"><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:0 1px 1px 0"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jaflong_Sylhet.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Jaflong_Sylhet.jpg/280px-Jaflong_Sylhet.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Jaflong_Sylhet.jpg/420px-Jaflong_Sylhet.jpg 1.5x, 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Keane_Bridge_and_Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock%2C_Sylhet.jpg/280px-Keane_Bridge_and_Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock%2C_Sylhet.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Keane_Bridge_and_Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock%2C_Sylhet.jpg/420px-Keane_Bridge_and_Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock%2C_Sylhet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Keane_Bridge_and_Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock%2C_Sylhet.jpg/560px-Keane_Bridge_and_Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock%2C_Sylhet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="611" /></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ib-settlement-caption"><b>Clockwise from the top:</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Jaflong" title="Jaflong">Jaflong</a>, Shahid Siraj Lake, <a href="/wiki/Shah_Jalal_Dargah" title="Shah Jalal Dargah">Shah Jalal Dargah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Keane_Bridge" title="Keane Bridge">Keane Bridge</a> & <a href="/wiki/Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock" title="Ali Amjad's Clock">Ali Amjad's Clock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jaintia_Kingdom" title="Jaintia Kingdom">Jaintia Princess Irāvati's Inn</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ratargul_Swamp_Forest" title="Ratargul Swamp Forest">Ratargul Swamp Forest</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Nickname: <div class="ib-settlement-nickname nickname">“Holy Land of 360 <a href="/wiki/Wali" title="Wali">Awliya</a>”<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="switcher-container"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sylhet_in_Bangladesh.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Sylhet_in_Bangladesh.svg/250px-Sylhet_in_Bangladesh.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="340" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Sylhet_in_Bangladesh.svg/375px-Sylhet_in_Bangladesh.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Sylhet_in_Bangladesh.svg/500px-Sylhet_in_Bangladesh.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1129" data-file-height="1535" /></a></span><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Sylhet Division in Bangladesh</span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sylhet_Division_districts_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Sylhet_Division_districts_map.png/250px-Sylhet_Division_districts_map.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Sylhet_Division_districts_map.png/375px-Sylhet_Division_districts_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Sylhet_Division_districts_map.png 2x" data-file-width="469" data-file-height="324" /></a></span><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Districts of Sylhet Division</span></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sylhet_Division&params=24_30_N_91_40_E_region:BD_type:adm1st_source:GNS-enwiki"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">24°30′N</span> <span class="longitude">91°40′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">24.500°N 91.667°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">24.500; 91.667</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1995</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital<br /><span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">and largest city</span></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sylhet" title="Sylhet">Sylhet</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Divisional_Commissioner_of_Bangladesh" class="mw-redirect" title="Divisional Commissioner of Bangladesh">Divisional Commissioner</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Abu Ahmed Siddique<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Bangladesh" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Bangladesh">Parliamentary constituency</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jatiya_Sangsad" title="Jatiya Sangsad">Jatiya Sangsad</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_parliamentary_constituencies_of_Bangladesh#Sylhte_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="List of parliamentary constituencies of Bangladesh">19 seats</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/Divisions_of_Bangladesh" title="Divisions of Bangladesh">Division of Bangladesh </a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">12,298.4 km<sup>2</sup> (4,748.4 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">334.67 m (1,098 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2022_Bangladeshi_census" title="2022 Bangladeshi census">2022</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-census2022_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2022-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/Divisions_of_Bangladesh" title="Divisions of Bangladesh">Division of Bangladesh </a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">11,034,952 (Enumerated)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">Urban</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-census2022_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2022-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">2,065,498</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Rural_area" title="Rural area">Rural</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-census2022_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2022-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">8,968,558</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_area" title="Metropolitan area">Metro</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-census2022_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2022-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">532,748</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Adjusted Population<sup id="cite_ref-census2022_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2022-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">11,415,113</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sylhetis" title="Sylhetis">Sylheti</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Demographics<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Literacy rate</th><td class="infobox-data">71.92%</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Languages<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Official_language" title="Official language">Official language</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a><sup id="cite_ref-bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Regional_language" title="Regional language">Regional language</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sylheti_language" title="Sylheti language">Sylheti</a><sup id="cite_ref-Ethnologue_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ethnologue-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"><a href="/wiki/Minority_language" title="Minority language">Minority Languages</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; background:transparent;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;font-size:100%;"><div>List<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Bishnupriya_Manipuri_lect" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishnupriya Manipuri lect">Bishnupriya Manipuri</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Hajong_language" title="Hajong language">Hajong</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Kharia_language" title="Kharia language">Kharia</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Khasi_language" title="Khasi language">Khasi</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Kurukh_language" title="Kurukh language">Kurukh</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Odia_language" title="Odia language">Odia</a><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Lyngngam_language" title="Lyngngam language">Lyngngam</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Meitei_language" title="Meitei language">Manipuri</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Pnar_language" title="Pnar language">Pnar</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Nagpuri_language" title="Nagpuri language">Sadri</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/War_language" title="War language">War-Jaintia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B6" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+6">UTC+6</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Standard_Time" title="Bangladesh Standard Time">BST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">BD-G</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">HDI</a> (2019)</th><td class="infobox-data">0.631<sup id="cite_ref-GlobalDataLab_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GlobalDataLab-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}</style><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#fc0">medium</span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable sport teams</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sylhet_Strikers" title="Sylhet Strikers">Sylhet Strikers</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Sylhet_Division_cricket_team" title="Sylhet Division cricket team">Sylhet Division</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sylhetdiv.gov.bd">sylhetdiv<wbr />.gov<wbr />.bd</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sylhet Division</b> (<a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a>: <span lang="bn">সিলেট বিভাগ</span>; <a href="/wiki/Sylheti_language" title="Sylheti language">Sylheti</a>: <span lang="syl">ꠍꠤꠟꠐ ꠛꠤꠜꠣꠉ</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the northeastern <a href="/wiki/Divisions_of_Bangladesh" title="Divisions of Bangladesh">division</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>. It is bordered by the <a href="/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India" title="States and union territories of India">Indian states</a> of <a href="/wiki/Meghalaya" title="Meghalaya">Meghalaya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assam" title="Assam">Assam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tripura" title="Tripura">Tripura</a> to the north, east and south respectively, and by the divisions of <a href="/wiki/Chittagong_Division" title="Chittagong Division">Chittagong</a> to the southwest and <a href="/wiki/Dhaka_Division" title="Dhaka Division">Dhaka</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mymensingh_Division" title="Mymensingh Division">Mymensingh</a> to the west. </p><p>Prior to the <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_India" title="Partition of India">Partition in 1947</a>, it included <a href="/wiki/Karimganj_district" title="Karimganj district">Karimganj subdivision</a> (presently in <a href="/wiki/Barak_Valley" title="Barak Valley">Barak Valley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assam" title="Assam">Assam</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>). However, Karimganj (including the <a href="/wiki/Thana" title="Thana">thanas</a> of <a href="/wiki/Badarpur,_Assam" title="Badarpur, Assam">Badarpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Patharkandi" title="Patharkandi">Patharkandi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ratabari_Assembly_constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="Ratabari Assembly constituency">Ratabari</a>) was inexplicably severed from Sylhet by the <a href="/wiki/Radcliffe_Line" title="Radcliffe Line">Radcliffe Boundary Commission</a>. According to <a href="/wiki/Niharranjan_Ray" title="Niharranjan Ray">Niharranjan Ray</a>, it was partly due to a plea from a delegation led by <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Matlib_Mazumdar" title="Abdul Matlib Mazumdar">Abdul Matlib Mazumdar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1740_Seutter_Map_of_India,_Pakistan,_Tibet_and_Afghanistan_-_Geographicus_-_IndiaMogolis-seutter-1740.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/1740_Seutter_Map_of_India%2C_Pakistan%2C_Tibet_and_Afghanistan_-_Geographicus_-_IndiaMogolis-seutter-1740.jpg/220px-1740_Seutter_Map_of_India%2C_Pakistan%2C_Tibet_and_Afghanistan_-_Geographicus_-_IndiaMogolis-seutter-1740.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/1740_Seutter_Map_of_India%2C_Pakistan%2C_Tibet_and_Afghanistan_-_Geographicus_-_IndiaMogolis-seutter-1740.jpg/330px-1740_Seutter_Map_of_India%2C_Pakistan%2C_Tibet_and_Afghanistan_-_Geographicus_-_IndiaMogolis-seutter-1740.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/1740_Seutter_Map_of_India%2C_Pakistan%2C_Tibet_and_Afghanistan_-_Geographicus_-_IndiaMogolis-seutter-1740.jpg/440px-1740_Seutter_Map_of_India%2C_Pakistan%2C_Tibet_and_Afghanistan_-_Geographicus_-_IndiaMogolis-seutter-1740.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5000" data-file-height="4418" /></a><figcaption>Sirote was a name used by Europeans in the 1700s</figcaption></figure> <p>The Sylhet Division is named after its headquarters, the city of <a href="/wiki/Sylhet" title="Sylhet">Sylhet</a>. Sylhet is the <a href="/wiki/Anglicisation_(linguistics)" title="Anglicisation (linguistics)">anglicisation</a> of <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">শিলহট</span></span> (<i>Śilhôṭ</i>), one of the archaic native names for the city.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The local name is generally thought to be directly derived from <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><span lang="sa">শ্রীহট্ট</span></span> (<i>Śrīhaṭṭa</i>), the <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> name of the city.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city of Śrīhaṭṭa takes its name from <i><a href="/wiki/Hattanath" title="Hattanath">Śrīhaṭṭanātha</a></i>, the <a href="/wiki/Tutelary_deity" title="Tutelary deity">tutelary deity</a> of the Nātha dynasty who promoted the early settlement of <a href="/wiki/Nath" class="mw-redirect" title="Nath">Nāthas</a> in the Surma and <a href="/wiki/Barak_Valley" title="Barak Valley">Barak</a> valleys between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, founding the Śrīhaṭṭa <i><a href="/wiki/Janapada" title="Janapada">janapada</a></i> and establishing <i>Śrīhaṭṭanātha</i> idols across the region.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The later <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> <a href="/wiki/Raja" title="Raja">rajas</a> of Sylhet, such as <a href="/wiki/Gour_Govinda" title="Gour Govinda">Gour Govinda</a>, continued to pay tribute to the deity as <i>Hāṭkeśvara</i> or <i>Haṭṭanātha</i> as evident from the <a href="/wiki/Puranas" title="Puranas">Devipurana</a> and copper-plate inscriptions.<sup id="cite_ref-achyut_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-achyut-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Sylhet" title="History of Sylhet">History of Sylhet</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AssamProvince1936_Map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/AssamProvince1936_Map.png/220px-AssamProvince1936_Map.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/AssamProvince1936_Map.png/330px-AssamProvince1936_Map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/AssamProvince1936_Map.png/440px-AssamProvince1936_Map.png 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="2060" /></a><figcaption>The Assam Province's Sylhet District contained Karimganj.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1874, the current Sylhet Division, which included <a href="/wiki/Karimganj_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Karimganj District">Karimganj District</a>, was entirely known as the 'Sylhet district'. On 16 February 1874, <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_division" class="mw-redirect" title="Sylhet division">Sylhet</a> was separated from mainland Bengal to be made a part of the <a href="/wiki/Non-regulation_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-regulation province">non-regulation</a> <a href="/wiki/Chief_Commissioner%27s_Province_of_Assam" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Commissioner's Province of Assam">Chief Commissioner's Province of Assam (Northeast Frontier Province)</a> in order to facilitate Assam's commercial development.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The people of Sylhet submitted a memorandum to the Viceroy protesting the inclusion in Assam.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The protests subsided when the Viceroy, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Baring,_1st_Earl_of_Northbrook" title="Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook">Lord Northbrook</a>, visited Sylhet to reassure the people that education and justice would be administered from Bengal,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and when the people in Sylhet saw the opportunity of employment in tea estates in Assam and a market for their produce.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1905, Sylhet district rejoined Bengal as a part of the new <i>Surma Valley Division</i> of <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bengal_and_Assam" title="Eastern Bengal and Assam">Eastern Bengal and Assam</a>. In 1912, the then Sylhet district was once again moved to the newly created <a href="/wiki/Assam_Province" title="Assam Province">Assam Province</a> alongside the other districts of the Surma Valley Division. </p><p>Historically, the entire Sylhet region was a single district within the <i>Surma Valley and Hill Districts</i> Division as part of the Assam Province. In 1947, a <a href="/wiki/1947_Sylhet_referendum" title="1947 Sylhet referendum">referendum</a> was held in the Sylhet district, the people of the whole district voting in favour of succession to Pakistan. However, the district's <a href="/wiki/Karimganj_district" title="Karimganj district">Karimganj subdivision</a> was given to India by Cyril Radcliffe, after apparently being pleaded by a delegation led by <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Matlib_Mazumdar" title="Abdul Matlib Mazumdar">Abdul Matlib Mazumdar</a>. The four other subdivisions (<a href="/wiki/North_Sylhet" class="mw-redirect" title="North Sylhet">North Sylhet</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Sylhet" class="mw-redirect" title="South Sylhet">South Sylhet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Habiganj_District" title="Habiganj District">Habiganj</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sunamganj_District" title="Sunamganj District">Sunamganj</a>) joined the <a href="/wiki/Dominion_of_Pakistan" title="Dominion of Pakistan">Dominion of Pakistan</a>; subsequently forming <a href="/wiki/East_Bengal" title="East Bengal">East Bengal</a>'s 'Sylhet district' in the Chittagong division. </p><p>Following the <a href="/wiki/Independence_of_Bangladesh" title="Independence of Bangladesh">Independence of Bangladesh</a> in 1971, Sylhet became part of the newly formed country. In 1984, the four subdivisions of Sylhet district were upgraded to districts as part of <a href="/wiki/H_M_Ershad" class="mw-redirect" title="H M Ershad">H M Ershad</a>'s decentralisation programme. The four districts remained in the <a href="/wiki/Chittagong_Division" title="Chittagong Division">Chittagong Division</a> until 1995 when they formed the new Sylhet Division. </p><p>The Sylhet Division has a "friendship link" with the city of <a href="/wiki/St_Albans" title="St Albans">St Albans</a>, in the United Kingdom. The link was established in 1988 when the <a href="/wiki/St_Albans_District_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="St Albans District Council">St Albans District Council</a> supported a housing project in Sylhet as part of the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless. Sylhet was chosen because it is the area of origin for the largest ethnic minority group in St Albans.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sylhet also has many "friendship links" with other cities in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, as the majority of the half-million <a href="/wiki/British_Bangladeshis" title="British Bangladeshis">British Bangladeshis</a> have origins in Sylhet. This includes places such as <a href="/wiki/Rochdale,_UK" class="mw-redirect" title="Rochdale, UK">Rochdale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oldham" title="Oldham">Oldham</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, and many more places.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tea_Garden_in_Malini_chora_Sylhet_Bangladesh_(3).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Tea_Garden_in_Malini_chora_Sylhet_Bangladesh_%283%29.JPG/220px-Tea_Garden_in_Malini_chora_Sylhet_Bangladesh_%283%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Tea_Garden_in_Malini_chora_Sylhet_Bangladesh_%283%29.JPG/330px-Tea_Garden_in_Malini_chora_Sylhet_Bangladesh_%283%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Tea_Garden_in_Malini_chora_Sylhet_Bangladesh_%283%29.JPG/440px-Tea_Garden_in_Malini_chora_Sylhet_Bangladesh_%283%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The Mulnicherra Estate is the oldest tea garden in South Asia</figcaption></figure> <p>The area around Sylhet is a traditional tea growing area. The Surma Valley is covered with terraces of tea gardens and tropical forests. <a href="/wiki/Srimangal" class="mw-redirect" title="Srimangal">Srimangal</a> is known as the tea capital of Bangladesh; for miles around, tea gardens are visible on the hill slopes. </p><p>The area has over 150 tea gardens, including three of the largest tea plantations in the world, both in terms of area and production. Nearly 300,000 workers, of which more than 75% are women, are employed on the tea estates. Employers prefer to engage women for plucking tea leaves since they do a better job than, but are paid less than, men. A recent drought has killed nearly a tenth of the tea shrubs. </p><p>The plantations, or gardens, were mostly developed during the <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British Raj</a>. The plantations were started by the British, and the managers still live in the white timber houses built during the Raj. The bungalows stand on huge lawns. The service and the lifestyle of managers are still unchanged. </p><p>Numerous projects and businesses in the city and in large towns have been funded by Sylhetis living and working abroad. As of 1986, an estimated 95 percent of ethnic <a href="/wiki/British_Bangladeshi" class="mw-redirect" title="British Bangladeshi">British Bangladeshis</a> originated from or had ancestors from the Sylhet region.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Bangladesh government has set up a special <a href="/wiki/Export_Processing_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Export Processing Zone">Export Processing Zone</a> (EPZ) in Sylhet, in order to attract foreign investors, mainly from the UK. </p><p>Sylhet has also benefited from tourism. There are many natural landmarks people tend to visit, such as the <a href="/wiki/Keane_Bridge" title="Keane Bridge">Keane Bridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock" title="Ali Amjad's Clock">Ali Amjad's Clock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lalakhal" title="Lalakhal">Lalakhal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jaflong" title="Jaflong">Jaflong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Madhabkunda_waterfall" title="Madhabkunda waterfall">Madhabkunda waterfall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ratargul_Swamp_Forest" title="Ratargul Swamp Forest">Ratargul Swamp Forest</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hakaluki_Haor" title="Hakaluki Haor">Hakaluki Haor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lawachara_National_Park" title="Lawachara National Park">Lawachara National Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tanguar_Haor" title="Tanguar Haor">Tanguar Haor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bichnakandi" title="Bichnakandi">Bichnakandi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sylhet is also considered to be the spiritual capital of Bangladesh, due to the resting place of <a href="/wiki/Shah_Jalal" title="Shah Jalal">Shah Jalal</a>, a Sufi saint who spread Islam in Bangladesh, along with hundreds of his disciples. The <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_Shahi_Eidgah" title="Sylhet Shahi Eidgah">Sylhet Shahi Eidgah</a> is a famous place where Eid prayers take place and it is one of the largest Eidgahs in Bangladesh, built by <a href="/wiki/Farhad_Khan" title="Farhad Khan">Farhad Khan</a> during the reign of Mughal emperor <a href="/wiki/Aurangzeb" title="Aurangzeb">Aurangzeb</a>. There are a number of hotels and resorts, particularly in <a href="/wiki/Sreemangal_Upazila" title="Sreemangal Upazila">Sreemangal Upazila</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bahubal_Upazila" title="Bahubal Upazila">Bahubal Upazila</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sylhet_Osmani_Airport.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Sylhet_Osmani_Airport.jpg/250px-Sylhet_Osmani_Airport.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Sylhet_Osmani_Airport.jpg/375px-Sylhet_Osmani_Airport.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Sylhet_Osmani_Airport.jpg/500px-Sylhet_Osmani_Airport.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Osmani_International_Airport" title="Osmani International Airport">Osmani International Airport</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sylhet_Railway.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Sylhet_Railway.jpg/250px-Sylhet_Railway.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Sylhet_Railway.jpg/375px-Sylhet_Railway.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Sylhet_Railway.jpg/500px-Sylhet_Railway.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Sylhet Railway station</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1995, Sylhet split from the Chittagong Division and was declared the 6th division of the country. The Sylhet Division is overseen by the Divisional Commissioner, the current Divisional Commissioner is Md. Mashiur Rahman. The Sylhet Division is divided into four districts (<a href="/wiki/Habiganj_District" title="Habiganj District">Habiganj</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moulvibazar_District" title="Moulvibazar District">Moulvibazar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sunamganj_District" title="Sunamganj District">Sunamganj</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_District" title="Sylhet District">Sylhet</a>) and further divided into 35 <a href="/wiki/Upazila" title="Upazila">upazilas</a> (sub-districts). These upazilas are further divided into 323 <a href="/wiki/Union_parishad" class="mw-redirect" title="Union parishad">union parishads</a>. Each union is roughly divided into 9 wards before going to village-level. There are roughly 10,185 villages in the Division. The Division hosts 19 <a href="/wiki/Municipal_corporation" title="Municipal corporation">Municipal corporations</a> known as <a href="/wiki/Pourashava" class="mw-redirect" title="Pourashava">pourashavas</a>, and one city corporation in <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_City_Corporation" title="Sylhet City Corporation">Sylhet city</a>. It also has 19 <a href="/wiki/List_of_Parliamentary_constituencies_in_Bangladesh" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh">Parliamentary constituencies</a>. The headquarters of the Sylhet Division is the city of Sylhet in <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_Sadar_Upazila" title="Sylhet Sadar Upazila">Sylhet Sadar Upazila</a>, Sylhet District. Pre-partition Sylhet's <a href="/wiki/Karimganj_district" title="Karimganj district">Karimganj</a> has been governed by <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> since 1947. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-bottom: 0;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Capital</th> <th>Area (km<sup>2</sup>)<sup id="cite_ref-Banglapedia_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Banglapedia-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Population <br /> 1991 Census</th> <th>Population <br /> 2001 Census</th> <th>Population <br /> 2011 Census </th> <th>Population <p>2022 Census </p> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Habiganj_District" title="Habiganj District">Habiganj District</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Habiganj" title="Habiganj">Habiganj</a></td> <td>2,536.58</td> <td>1,526,609</td> <td>1,757,665</td> <td>2,089,001 </td> <td>2,358,747 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Moulvibazar_District" title="Moulvibazar District">Moulvibazar District</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moulvibazar" title="Moulvibazar">Moulvibazar</a></td> <td>2,601.84</td> <td>1,376,566</td> <td>1,612,374</td> <td>1,919,062 </td> <td>2,123,349 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunamganj_District" title="Sunamganj District">Sunamganj District</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunamganj" title="Sunamganj">Sunamganj</a></td> <td>3,669.58</td> <td>1,708,563</td> <td>2,013,738</td> <td>2,467,968 </td> <td>2,695,294 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sylhet_District" title="Sylhet District">Sylhet District</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sylhet" title="Sylhet">Sylhet</a></td> <td>3,490.40</td> <td>2,153,301</td> <td>2,555,566</td> <td>3,434,188 </td> <td>3,856,974 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Total District</i></td> <td>4</td> <td>12,298.4</td> <td>6,765,039</td> <td>7,939,343</td> <td>9,910,219 </td> <td>11,034,364 </td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1214851843">.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;padding:5px;border:none;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .hidden-title{font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .hidden-content{text-align:left}@media all and (max-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{width:auto!important;clear:none!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border:1px #aaa solid;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">List of Upazilas in Sylhet Division</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>District</th> <th colspan="7" width="100%">Upazila </th></tr> <tr style="border-top: 3px solid black"> <td rowspan="1"><a href="/wiki/Habiganj_District" title="Habiganj District">Habiganj District</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="background: #eeffeb"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Ajmiriganj_Upazila" title="Ajmiriganj Upazila">Ajmiriganj Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bahubal_Upazila" title="Bahubal Upazila">Bahubal Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baniachong_Upazila" title="Baniachong Upazila">Baniachong Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chunarughat_Upazila" title="Chunarughat Upazila">Chunarughat Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Habiganj_Sadar_Upazila" title="Habiganj Sadar Upazila">Habiganj Sadar Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakhai_Upazila" title="Lakhai Upazila">Lakhai Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhabpur_Upazila" title="Madhabpur Upazila">Madhabpur Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabiganj_Upazila" title="Nabiganj Upazila">Nabiganj Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayestaganj_Upazila" class="mw-redirect" title="Sayestaganj Upazila">Sayestaganj Upazila</a></li></ol> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="1"><a href="/wiki/Moulvibazar_District" title="Moulvibazar District">Moulvibazar District</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="background: #eeffeb"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Barlekha_Upazila" title="Barlekha Upazila">Barlekha Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juri_Upazila" title="Juri Upazila">Juri Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamalganj_Upazila" title="Kamalganj Upazila">Kamalganj Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kulaura_Upazila" title="Kulaura Upazila">Kulaura Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moulvibazar_Sadar_Upazila" title="Moulvibazar Sadar Upazila">Moulvibazar Sadar Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajnagar_Upazila" title="Rajnagar Upazila">Rajnagar Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sreemangal_Upazila" title="Sreemangal Upazila">Sreemangal Upazila</a></li></ol> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="1"><a href="/wiki/Sunamganj_District" title="Sunamganj District">Sunamganj District</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="background: #eeffeb"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Bishwamvarpur_Upazila" title="Bishwamvarpur Upazila">Bishwamvarpur Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chhatak_Upazila" title="Chhatak Upazila">Chhatak Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dakshin_Sunamganj_Upazila" class="mw-redirect" title="Dakshin Sunamganj Upazila">Dakshin Sunamganj Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derai_Upazila" title="Derai Upazila">Derai Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharamapasha_Upazila" class="mw-redirect" title="Dharamapasha Upazila">Dharamapasha Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dowarabazar_Upazila" title="Dowarabazar Upazila">Dowarabazar Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagannathpur_Upazila" title="Jagannathpur Upazila">Jagannathpur Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamalganj_Upazila" title="Jamalganj Upazila">Jamalganj Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhyanagar_Upazila" title="Madhyanagar Upazila">Madhyanagar Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shantiganj_Upazila" title="Shantiganj Upazila">Shantiganj Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sullah_Upazila" title="Sullah Upazila">Sullah Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunamganj_Sadar_Upazila" title="Sunamganj Sadar Upazila">Sunamganj Sadar Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahirpur_Upazila" title="Tahirpur Upazila">Tahirpur Upazila</a></li></ol> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="1"><a href="/wiki/Sylhet_District" title="Sylhet District">Sylhet District</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="background: #eeffeb"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Balaganj_Upazila" title="Balaganj Upazila">Balaganj Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beanibazar_Upazila" title="Beanibazar Upazila">Beanibazar Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishwanath_Upazila" title="Bishwanath Upazila">Bishwanath Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Companiganj_Upazila,_Sylhet" title="Companiganj Upazila, Sylhet">Companiganj Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fenchuganj_Upazila" title="Fenchuganj Upazila">Fenchuganj Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golapganj_Upazila" title="Golapganj Upazila">Golapganj Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gowainghat_Upazila" title="Gowainghat Upazila">Gowainghat Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaintiapur_Upazila" title="Jaintiapur Upazila">Jaintiapur Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanaighat_Upazila" title="Kanaighat Upazila">Kanaighat Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osmani_Nagar_Upazila" title="Osmani Nagar Upazila">Osmani Nagar Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Surma_Upazila" class="mw-redirect" title="South Surma Upazila">South Surma Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylhet_Sadar_Upazila" title="Sylhet Sadar Upazila">Sylhet Sadar Upazila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zakiganj_Upazila" title="Zakiganj Upazila">Zakiganj Upazila</a></li></ol> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kala_pahar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Kala_pahar.jpg/220px-Kala_pahar.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Kala_pahar.jpg/330px-Kala_pahar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Kala_pahar.jpg/440px-Kala_pahar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8064" data-file-height="5376" /></a><figcaption>The highest peak in the region is <a href="/wiki/Kala_pahar" class="mw-redirect" title="Kala pahar">Kala pahar</a> located in the Longla Ridge (Hararganj-Singla range).</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nature_of_hakaluki_haor.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Nature_of_hakaluki_haor.jpg/220px-Nature_of_hakaluki_haor.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Nature_of_hakaluki_haor.jpg/330px-Nature_of_hakaluki_haor.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Nature_of_hakaluki_haor.jpg/440px-Nature_of_hakaluki_haor.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="641" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hakaluki_Haor" title="Hakaluki Haor">Hakaluki Haor</a> is the largest <a href="/wiki/Haor" title="Haor">haor</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Geographically the region is surrounded by hillocks (known as <i>tilla</i>s) from all three sides except its western plain boundary with the rest of <a href="/wiki/Bengal" title="Bengal">Bengal</a>. In the south of the region (<a href="/wiki/Habiganj_District" title="Habiganj District">Habiganj</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moulvibazar_District" title="Moulvibazar District">Moulvibazar</a>), eight hill ranges enter the plains of Sylhet running uniformly from the west to the east. They are: Raghunandan, Dinarpur-Shatgaon, Balishira, Bhanugach-Rajkandi, Hararganj-Singla, Patharia, Pratapgarh-Duhalia and Sorrispur-Siddheswar hill ranges. At the centre of the region is also an isolated range known as the Ita Hills.<sup id="cite_ref-heads_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-heads-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The region is considered one of the most picturesque and archaeologically rich regions in <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a>. It is home to three <a href="/wiki/National_park" title="National park">national parks</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Lawachara_National_Park" title="Lawachara National Park">Lawachara National Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khadim_Nagar_National_Park" title="Khadim Nagar National Park">Khadim Nagar National Park</a> and <a href="/wiki/Satchari_National_Park" title="Satchari National Park">Satchari National Park</a>, as well as numerous smaller parks and forests such as the <a href="/wiki/Ratargul_Swamp_Forest" title="Ratargul Swamp Forest">Ratargul Swamp Forest</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rema-Kalenga_Wildlife_Sanctuary" title="Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary">Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary</a>. Its burgeoning economy has contributed to the regional attractions of landscapes filled with fragrant orange and pineapple gardens as well as tea plantations. The region has a <a href="/wiki/Tropical_monsoon_climate" title="Tropical monsoon climate">tropical monsoon climate</a> (<a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen</a> <i>Am</i>) bordering on a <a href="/wiki/Humid_subtropical_climate" title="Humid subtropical climate">humid subtropical climate</a> (<i>Cwa</i>) at higher elevations. The rainy season from April to October is hot and humid with very heavy showers and thunderstorms almost every day, whilst the short dry season from November to February is very warm and fairly clear. Nearly 80% of the annual average rainfall of 4,200 millimetres (170 in) occurs between May and September.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Physiography" class="mw-redirect" title="Physiography">physiography</a> of the division consists mainly of hill soils, encompassing a few large depressions known locally as "<a href="/wiki/Beel" title="Beel">beels</a>" which can be mainly classified as <a href="/wiki/Oxbow_lake" title="Oxbow lake">oxbow lakes</a>, caused by tectonic subsidence primarily during <a href="/wiki/1762_Arakan_earthquake" title="1762 Arakan earthquake">the earthquake of 1762</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-heads_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-heads-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Geologically, the division is complex having diverse sacrificial geomorphology; high topography of <a href="/wiki/Pliocene" title="Pliocene">Plio</a>-<a href="/wiki/Miocene" title="Miocene">Miocene</a> age such as the <a href="/wiki/Khasi_Hills" title="Khasi Hills">Khasi and Jaintia Hills</a> and small hillocks along the border. At the centre there is a vast low laying flood plain of recent origin with saucer shaped depressions, locally called <i><a href="/wiki/Haor" title="Haor">haors</a></i>. There are many haors in the region and the largest ones include <a href="/wiki/Hakaluki_Haor" title="Hakaluki Haor">Hakaluki</a>, Kawadighi, <a href="/wiki/Tanguar_Haor" title="Tanguar Haor">Tanguar</a> and Hail. Available limestone deposits in different parts of the region suggest that the whole area was under the ocean in the <a href="/wiki/Oligocene" title="Oligocene">Oligo</a>-<a href="/wiki/Miocene" title="Miocene">Miocene</a>. In the last 150 years, three major earthquakes hit the city, at a magnitude of at least 7.5 on the <a href="/wiki/Richter_Scale" class="mw-redirect" title="Richter Scale">Richter Scale</a>, the last one took place in 1918, although many people are unaware that Sylhet lies on an earthquake prone zone.<sup id="cite_ref-ds10Feb2006_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ds10Feb2006-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Flora_and_fauna">Flora and fauna</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Flora and fauna"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The region is home to the <a href="/wiki/Asian_elephant" title="Asian elephant">Asian elephant</a> and the <a href="/wiki/One-horned_rhinoceros" class="mw-redirect" title="One-horned rhinoceros">One-horned rhinoceros</a>, mostly towards the south. Tigers and leopards were once found throughout the region. Other notable fauna include the <a href="/wiki/Sambar_deer" title="Sambar deer">Sambar deer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indian_hog_deer" title="Indian hog deer">Indian hog deer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hara_jerdoni" title="Hara jerdoni">Sylhet hara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_roofed_turtle" class="mw-redirect" title="Sylhet roofed turtle">Sylhet roofed turtle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-allen_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-allen-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Asian elephant were once found in small numbers in places such as Chapghat, Bhanugach, Chamtolla, Mahram and the Raghunandan hills. More abundantly they are found near streams in Singla and Langai.<sup id="cite_ref-heads_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-heads-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Sylhet" class="mw-redirect" title="Culture of Sylhet">Culture of Sylhet</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Language">Language</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sylheti_Nagari_Alphabet_Monument.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Sylheti_Nagari_Alphabet_Monument.jpg/220px-Sylheti_Nagari_Alphabet_Monument.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="367" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Sylheti_Nagari_Alphabet_Monument.jpg/330px-Sylheti_Nagari_Alphabet_Monument.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Sylheti_Nagari_Alphabet_Monument.jpg/440px-Sylheti_Nagari_Alphabet_Monument.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2496" data-file-height="4160" /></a><figcaption>The "Nagari Chattar" (Nagari Square), built near Surma river in the city of <a href="/wiki/Sylhet" title="Sylhet">Sylhet</a>, consists of the <a href="/wiki/Sylheti_Nagri" title="Sylheti Nagri">Sylheti Nagri</a> script.</figcaption></figure> <p>The official language of Sylhet is <a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a>, which is used in education and all government affairs in the division. <a href="/wiki/Sylheti_language" title="Sylheti language">Sylheti</a> is the most widely spoken in the division. At one point, the <a href="/wiki/Sylheti_Nagri" title="Sylheti Nagri">Sylheti Nagri</a> script was notably popular in its use to write Islamic <a href="/wiki/Puthi" title="Puthi">puthis</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Adivasi" title="Adivasi">Adivasis</a> and tea labourers brought over during the British colonial rule also have their own native languages such as <a href="/wiki/Khasi_language" title="Khasi language">Khasi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kuki_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuki language">Kuki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laleng" title="Laleng">Laiunghtor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meitei_language" title="Meitei language">Meitei</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bishnupriya_Manipuri_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishnupriya Manipuri language">Bishnupriya Manipuri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hajong_language" title="Hajong language">Hajong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garo_language" title="Garo language">Garo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Odia_language" title="Odia language">Odia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kurmi" title="Kurmi">Kurmi creole</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhumij_language" title="Bhumij language">Bhumij</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tripuri_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Tripuri language">Tripuri</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-musahar_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musahar-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Architecture">Architecture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Architecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Bengali_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Bengali architecture">Bengali architecture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islamic_architecture" title="Islamic architecture">Islamic architecture</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mughal_architecture" title="Mughal architecture">Mughal architecture</a></div> <p>The intense building of mosques which took place during the Sultanate era indicates the rapidity with which the locals converted to Islam. Today, mosques are present in every Muslim-inhabited village. Bengali mosques are normally covered with several small domes and curved brick roofs decorated with <a href="/wiki/Terracotta" title="Terracotta">terracotta</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ponds" class="mw-redirect" title="Ponds">Ponds</a> are often located beside a mosque.<sup id="cite_ref-Grabar1989_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grabar1989-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Faujdar" title="Faujdar">Faujdar</a> <a href="/wiki/Farhad_Khan" title="Farhad Khan">Farhad Khan</a> built <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_Shahi_Eidgah" title="Sylhet Shahi Eidgah">Sylhet Shahi Eidgah</a> in the 1660s under the reign of <a href="/wiki/Mughal_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Mughal Emperor">Mughal Emperor</a> <a href="/wiki/Aurangzeb" title="Aurangzeb">Aurangzeb</a>. It stands as the largest <a href="/wiki/Eidgah" title="Eidgah">eidgah</a> of the region.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1872, Nawab Moulvi Ali Ahmed Khan of <a href="/wiki/Prithimpassa" class="mw-redirect" title="Prithimpassa">Prithimpassa</a> constructed <a href="/wiki/Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock" title="Ali Amjad's Clock">Ali Amjad's Clock</a>, named after his son, in <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Sylhet City">Sylhet City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1936, a bridge was constructed across the <a href="/wiki/Surma_River" title="Surma River">Surma River</a> known as the <a href="/wiki/Keane_Bridge" title="Keane Bridge">Keane Bridge</a>. These two historic landmarks are known as the <i>gateway to Sylhet city</i>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Assam-type_architecture" title="Assam-type architecture">Assam-type architecture</a> developed in Sylhet region under Assam Province during the late modern period. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerycaption">Architecture of Sylhet</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 203.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 201.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Keane_Bridge_and_Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock,_Sylhet.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ali Amjad's Clock and Keane Bridge"><img alt="Ali Amjad's Clock and Keane Bridge" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Keane_Bridge_and_Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock%2C_Sylhet.jpg/302px-Keane_Bridge_and_Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock%2C_Sylhet.jpg" decoding="async" width="202" height="120" class="mw-file-element" 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It is surrounded by hills and has a scenic view.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">Cricket</a> is the most popular sport in Sylhet. Regional cricket teams include <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_Thunder" class="mw-redirect" title="Sylhet Thunder">Sylhet Thunder</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Zone_cricket_team_(Bangladesh)" title="East Zone cricket team (Bangladesh)">East Zone</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_Division_cricket_team" title="Sylhet Division cricket team">Sylhet Division cricket team</a>. Football is also a common sport and the multi-use <a href="/wiki/Saifur_Rahman_Stadium" title="Saifur Rahman Stadium">Saifur Rahman Stadium</a> are known to host football matches. <a href="/wiki/Beanibazar_SC" title="Beanibazar SC">Beanibazar SC</a> has played in the <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangladesh League">Bangladesh League</a>. The home stadium of the football club, <a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Russel_KC" title="Sheikh Russel KC">Sheikh Russel KC</a>, is in <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_District_Stadium" title="Sylhet District Stadium">Sylhet District Stadium</a>. Board and home games such as <a href="/wiki/Pachisi" title="Pachisi">Dosh Fochish</a> and its modern counterpart <a href="/wiki/Ludo_(board_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ludo (board game)">Ludo</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Carrom_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="Carrom Board">Carrom Board</a>, Sur-Fulish, <a href="/wiki/Kanamachi" title="Kanamachi">Khanamasi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chess" title="Chess">Chess</a>, are very popular in the region. <a href="/wiki/Nowka_Bais" class="mw-redirect" title="Nowka Bais">Nowka Bais</a> is a common traditional rowing competition during the monsoon season when rivers are filled up, and much of the land is under water. Fighting sports include <a href="/wiki/Kabaddi" title="Kabaddi">Kabaddi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latim" class="mw-redirect" title="Latim">Latim</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lathi_khela" title="Lathi khela">Lathi khela</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Boys_at_Primary_School_-_Srimangal_-_Sylhet_Division_-_Bangladesh_(12906116925).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Boys_at_Primary_School_-_Srimangal_-_Sylhet_Division_-_Bangladesh_%2812906116925%29.jpg/220px-Boys_at_Primary_School_-_Srimangal_-_Sylhet_Division_-_Bangladesh_%2812906116925%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Boys_at_Primary_School_-_Srimangal_-_Sylhet_Division_-_Bangladesh_%2812906116925%29.jpg/330px-Boys_at_Primary_School_-_Srimangal_-_Sylhet_Division_-_Bangladesh_%2812906116925%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Boys_at_Primary_School_-_Srimangal_-_Sylhet_Division_-_Bangladesh_%2812906116925%29.jpg/440px-Boys_at_Primary_School_-_Srimangal_-_Sylhet_Division_-_Bangladesh_%2812906116925%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bengali_Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Bengali Muslim">Bengali Muslim</a> primary school students in <a href="/wiki/Srimangal" class="mw-redirect" title="Srimangal">Srimangal</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Khasia_Children-02,_Srimongol,_Moulvibazar,_Bangladesh,_(C)_Biplob_Rahman.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Khasia_Children-02%2C_Srimongol%2C_Moulvibazar%2C_Bangladesh%2C_%28C%29_Biplob_Rahman.jpg/220px-Khasia_Children-02%2C_Srimongol%2C_Moulvibazar%2C_Bangladesh%2C_%28C%29_Biplob_Rahman.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Khasia_Children-02%2C_Srimongol%2C_Moulvibazar%2C_Bangladesh%2C_%28C%29_Biplob_Rahman.jpg/330px-Khasia_Children-02%2C_Srimongol%2C_Moulvibazar%2C_Bangladesh%2C_%28C%29_Biplob_Rahman.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Khasia_Children-02%2C_Srimongol%2C_Moulvibazar%2C_Bangladesh%2C_%28C%29_Biplob_Rahman.jpg/440px-Khasia_Children-02%2C_Srimongol%2C_Moulvibazar%2C_Bangladesh%2C_%28C%29_Biplob_Rahman.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>A young <a href="/wiki/Khasi_people" title="Khasi people">Khasi</a> boy in a remote village.</figcaption></figure> <p>The division's population is over 12 million and <a href="/wiki/Bengalis" title="Bengalis">Bengalis</a> make up a large majority of the region's population. The tribal and <a href="/wiki/Adivasi" title="Adivasi">Adivasi</a> population tend to live in secluded rural areas of the region primarily near the hills and tea gardens. They are made up of several ethnic groups such as the <a href="/wiki/Bishnupriya_Manipuri_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishnupriya Manipuri people">Bishnupriya Manipuris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khasi_people" title="Khasi people">Khasi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laleng" title="Laleng">Lalengs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tripuri_people" title="Tripuri people">Tripuris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meitei_people" title="Meitei people">Meiteis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garo_people" title="Garo people">Garos</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kuki_people" title="Kuki people">Kukis</a>. In the nineteenth century, the British brought over indigenous peoples from other parts of <a href="/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India">British India</a> to work as tea garden labourers such as the <a href="/wiki/Kurmi" title="Kurmi">Kurmis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Musahar" title="Musahar">Musahars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bauris" class="mw-redirect" title="Bauris">Bauris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beens" title="Beens">Beens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bonaz" title="Bonaz">Bonaz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sabar_people" title="Sabar people">Sabar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bhumij_people" title="Bhumij people">Bhumij</a> amongst others.<sup id="cite_ref-bhumij_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bhumij-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="notheme barbox tright" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#Fcd116"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Religion in Sylhet Division (2022)<sup id="cite_ref-census2022_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2022-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;">Religion</td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;">Percent</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Bangladesh" title="Islam in Bangladesh">Muslims</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:green; width:86.22%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">86.22%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_Bangladesh" title="Hinduism in Bangladesh">Hindus</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:darkorange; width:13.51%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">13.51%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Bangladesh" title="Christianity in Bangladesh">Christians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:dodgerblue; width:0.23%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.23%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Others</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:black; width:0.04%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.04%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <p><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> is the largest religion in the whole region practised by the <a href="/wiki/Bengali_Muslims" title="Bengali Muslims">Bengali Muslims</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Islam</a> is the largest denomination with majority following the <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> school of law although some also follow the <a href="/wiki/Shafi%27i" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafi'i">Shafi'i</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hanbali" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanbali">Hanbali</a> <a href="/wiki/Madhhab" title="Madhhab">madhhabs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ourbang_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ourbang-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are significant numbers of people who follow <a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufi</a> ideals similar to the <a href="/wiki/Barelvis" class="mw-redirect" title="Barelvis">Barelvis</a>, the most influential is the teachings of <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Latif_Chowdhury_Fultali" title="Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali">Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali</a> of <a href="/wiki/Zakiganj_Upazila" title="Zakiganj Upazila">Zakiganj</a> – a descendant of one of the disciples of <a href="/wiki/Shah_Jalal" title="Shah Jalal">Shah Jalal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BDUK_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BDUK-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The revivalist <a href="/wiki/Deobandi" class="mw-redirect" title="Deobandi">Deobandi</a> movement is also popular in the region with <a href="/wiki/Jamia_Tawakkulia_Renga_Madrasah" title="Jamia Tawakkulia Renga Madrasah">Jamia Tawakkulia Renga</a> being a notable centre and many are part of the <a href="/wiki/Tablighi_Jamaat" title="Tablighi Jamaat">Tablighi Jamaat</a>. <a href="/wiki/Haji_Shariatullah" title="Haji Shariatullah">Haji Shariatullah</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Faraizi_movement" title="Faraizi movement">Faraizi movement</a> was very popular during the British period and <a href="/wiki/Wahhabism" title="Wahhabism">Wahhabism</a> is adopted by some upper-class families.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya" title="Ahmadiyya">Ahmadiyya</a> community is mostly concentrated in <a href="/wiki/Dharmapasha_Upazila" title="Dharmapasha Upazila">Selbaras</a>, which was the ancestral home of Ahmad Toufiq Choudhury, the leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Bangladesh.<sup id="cite_ref-zikr_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zikr-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is a very small minority of <a href="/wiki/Shia_Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Shia Muslims">Shia Muslims</a> who gather every year during <a href="/wiki/Ashura" title="Ashura">Ashura</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Mourning_of_Muharram" title="Mourning of Muharram">Mourning of Muharram</a> processions. Places of procession include the <a href="/wiki/Prithimpassa_Family" class="mw-redirect" title="Prithimpassa Family">Prithimpasha Nawab Bari</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kulaura" class="mw-redirect" title="Kulaura">Kulaura</a>, home to a royal Shia family, as well as <a href="/wiki/Kamalganj_Upazila" title="Kamalganj Upazila">Rajtila</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> is the second largest religion practised by the <a href="/wiki/Bengali_Hindus" title="Bengali Hindus">Bengali Hindus</a> as well as majority of the <a href="/wiki/Bishnupriya_Manipuri_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishnupriya Manipuri people">Bishnupriya Manipuri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beens" title="Beens">Beens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhumij_people" title="Bhumij people">Bhumij</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bonaz" title="Bonaz">Bonaz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sabar_people" title="Sabar people">Sabar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Musahar" title="Musahar">Musahar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kurmi" title="Kurmi">Kurmi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laleng" title="Laleng">Lalengs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bauris" class="mw-redirect" title="Bauris">Bauris</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tripuri_people" title="Tripuri people">Tripuri</a> population. Sylhet has the largest concentration of Hindus in Eastern Bengal and is a part of the <a href="/wiki/Shakta_pitha" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakta pitha">Shakta pitha</a>. </p><p>Other minority religions include <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> (including the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Sylhet" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Sylhet">Roman Catholic Diocese of Sylhet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sylhet_Presbyterian_Synod" title="Sylhet Presbyterian Synod">Sylhet Presbyterian Synod</a>), <a href="/wiki/Khasi_people#Khasi_mythology" title="Khasi people">Ka Niam Khasi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sanamahism" title="Sanamahism">Sanamahism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garo_people#Religion" title="Garo people">Songsarek</a> as well as animism. In the early 20th century, there were over a hundred <a href="/wiki/Marwari_people" title="Marwari people">Marwaris</a> from <a href="/wiki/Rajasthan" title="Rajasthan">Rajasthan</a> that were living in Sylhet, mostly as merchants and followed <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-allen_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-allen-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 90">: 90 </span></sup> </p><p>There was a presence of <a href="/wiki/Sikhism" title="Sikhism">Sikhism</a> in Sylhet after <a href="/wiki/Guru_Nanak" title="Guru Nanak">Guru Nanak</a>'s visit in 1508 to spread the religion. <a href="/wiki/Kahn_Singh_Nabha" title="Kahn Singh Nabha">Kahn Singh Nabha</a> has stated that in memory of Nanak's visit, <i>Gurdwara Sahib Sylhet</i> was established.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This Gurdwara was visited twice by <a href="/wiki/Tegh_Bahadur" class="mw-redirect" title="Tegh Bahadur">Tegh Bahadur</a> and many <a href="/wiki/Hukamnama" title="Hukamnama">hukamnamas</a> were issued to this temple by <a href="/wiki/Guru_Gobind_Singh" title="Guru Gobind Singh">Guru Gobind Singh</a>. 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href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Divisions_of_Bangladesh" title="Divisions of Bangladesh">Divisions of Bangladesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folk_deities_of_Sylhet" title="Folk deities of Sylhet">Folk deities of Sylhet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Sylhet" title="List of people from Sylhet">List of people from Sylhet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assam_roofed_turtle" title="Assam roofed turtle">Sylhet roofed turtle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hara_jerdoni" title="Hara jerdoni">Sylhet Hara</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sylhet_Division&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 January</span> 2024</span>. <q>দেশের উত্তর-পূর্বাঞ্চলের নেত্রকোনা, ময়মনসিংহ, শেরপুর, সুনামগঞ্জ ও সিলেটের আংশিক এলাকার ১০৮টি গ্রামে হাজং সম্প্রদায়ের বসবাস।</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0+%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A5%E0%A7%87+%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%82+%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%88%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF&rft.pub=Janakantha&rft.date=2022-02-22&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyjanakantha.com%2Fnational%2Fnews%2F633298&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASylhet+Division" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMintu_Deshwara,_Pinaki_Roy2021" class="citation web cs1">Mintu Deshwara, Pinaki Roy (21 February 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/the-last-the-kharia-speakers-2048329">"The last of the Kharia speakers"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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I tried to teach the language to the younger people but they do not show interest and laugh at me when I speak in Kharia.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+last+of+the+Kharia+speakers&rft.date=2021-02-21&rft.au=Mintu+Deshwara%2C+Pinaki+Roy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailystar.net%2Fbackpage%2Fnews%2Fthe-last-the-kharia-speakers-2048329&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASylhet+Division" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFনিজস্ব_প্রতিবেদক2023" class="citation web cs1">নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদক (11 February 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/district/euv7tqz26y">"খাসি ভাষা ধরে রাখার চেষ্টায় বিদ্যালয় চালু"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 January</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A8+%27%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%96%27+%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%BE+%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC+%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8+%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%97&rft.pub=Prothom+Alo&rft.date=2023-12-11&rft.au=%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC+%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%95&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prothomalo.com%2Fbangladesh%2Fdistrict%2Fza9378rxmn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASylhet+Division" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJengcham,_Subhas2012" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Jengcham, Subhas (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bonaz">"Bonaz"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Sirajul_Islam" title="Sirajul Islam">Sirajul Islam</a>; Miah, Sajahan; <a href="/wiki/Mahfuza_Khanam" title="Mahfuza Khanam">Khanam, Mahfuza</a>; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). <i><a href="/wiki/Banglapedia" title="Banglapedia">Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh</a></i> (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, <a href="/wiki/Asiatic_Society_of_Bangladesh" title="Asiatic Society of Bangladesh">Asiatic Society of Bangladesh</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/984-32-0576-6" title="Special:BookSources/984-32-0576-6"><bdi>984-32-0576-6</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/52727562">52727562</a>. <a href="/wiki/OL_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OL (identifier)">OL</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL30677644M">30677644M</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Routledge. pp. 53–54. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-317-96647-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-317-96647-0"><bdi>978-1-317-96647-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Minority+Nationalisms+in+South+Asia&rft.pages=53-54&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-1-317-96647-0&rft.au=Tanweer+Fazal&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D6bGMAQAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA53&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASylhet+Division" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHossain2013" class="citation journal cs1">Hossain, Ashfaque (2013). 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"The Making and Unmaking of Assam-Bengal Borders and the Sylhet Referendum". <i>Modern Asian Studies</i>. <b>47</b> (1): 261. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0026749X1200056X">10.1017/S0026749X1200056X</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/23359785">23359785</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145546471">145546471</a>. <q>A memorandum of protest against the transfer of Sylhet was submitted to the viceroy on 10 August 1874 by leaders of both the Hindu and Muslim communities.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Modern+Asian+Studies&rft.atitle=The+Making+and+Unmaking+of+Assam-Bengal+Borders+and+the+Sylhet+Referendum&rft.volume=47&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=261&rft.date=2013&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A145546471%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F23359785%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0026749X1200056X&rft.aulast=Hossain&rft.aufirst=Ashfaque&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASylhet+Division" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHossain2013" class="citation journal cs1">Hossain, Ashfaque (2013). 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District">Brahmanbaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandpur_District" title="Chandpur District">Chandpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chittagong_District" title="Chittagong District">Chattogram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comilla_District" title="Comilla District">Cumilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cox%27s_Bazar_District" title="Cox's Bazar District">Cox's Bazar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feni_District" title="Feni District">Feni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khagrachhari_District" title="Khagrachhari District">Khagrachhari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshmipur_District" title="Lakshmipur District">Lakshmipur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noakhali_District" title="Noakhali District">Noakhali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rangamati_Hill_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Rangamati Hill District">Rangamati</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dhaka_Division" title="Dhaka Division">Dhaka Division</a></th><td 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District">Kushtia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magura_District" title="Magura District">Magura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meherpur_District" title="Meherpur District">Meherpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narail_District" title="Narail District">Narail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satkhira_District" title="Satkhira District">Satkhira</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mymensingh_Division" title="Mymensingh Division">Mymensingh Division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jamalpur_District" title="Jamalpur District">Jamalpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mymensingh_District" title="Mymensingh District">Mymensingh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Netrokona_District" title="Netrokona District">Netrokona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherpur_District" title="Sherpur District">Sherpur</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rajshahi_Division" title="Rajshahi Division">Rajshahi Division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bogra_District" title="Bogra District">Bogura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joypurhat_District" title="Joypurhat District">Joypurhat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naogaon_District" title="Naogaon District">Naogaon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natore_District" title="Natore District">Natore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chapai_Nawabganj_District" title="Chapai Nawabganj District">Chapai Nawabganj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pabna_District" title="Pabna District">Pabna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajshahi_District" title="Rajshahi District">Rajshahi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirajganj_District" title="Sirajganj District">Sirajganj</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rangpur_Division" title="Rangpur Division">Rangpur Division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dinajpur_District,_Bangladesh" title="Dinajpur District, Bangladesh">Dinajpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaibandha_District" title="Gaibandha District">Gaibandha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurigram_District" title="Kurigram District">Kurigram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalmonirhat_District" title="Lalmonirhat District">Lalmonirhat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nilphamari_District" title="Nilphamari District">Nilphamari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panchagarh_District" title="Panchagarh District">Panchagarh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rangpur_District" title="Rangpur District">Rangpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thakurgaon_District" title="Thakurgaon District">Thakurgaon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sylhet Division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Habiganj_District" title="Habiganj District">Habiganj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moulvibazar_District" title="Moulvibazar District">Moulvibazar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunamganj_District" title="Sunamganj District">Sunamganj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylhet_District" title="Sylhet District">Sylhet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Articles_related_to_Sylhet_Division" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" 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class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div>Capital: <b><a href="/wiki/Sylhet" title="Sylhet">Sylhet</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Administrative areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Districts <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Habiganj_District" title="Habiganj District">Habiganj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karimganj_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Karimganj District">Karimganj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moulvibazar_District" title="Moulvibazar District">Moulvibazar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunamganj_District" title="Sunamganj District">Sunamganj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylhet_District" title="Sylhet District">Sylhet</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Upazilas_of_Sylhet_Division" title="Template:Upazilas of Sylhet Division">Upazilas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Parliamentary_constituencies_in_Bangladesh" title="Template:Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh">Constituencies</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="13" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Bangladesh"><img alt="Flag of Bangladesh" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/50px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/75px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/100px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Attractions and sites</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Amjad%27s_Clock" title="Ali Amjad's Clock">Ali Amjad's Clock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Last_House" title="Bangladesh Last House">Bangladesh Last House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bichnakandi" title="Bichnakandi">Bichnakandi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citrus_Research_Center,_Jaintapur" class="mw-redirect" title="Citrus Research Center, Jaintapur">Citrus Research Center</a></li> <li>Haor <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hakaluki_Haor" title="Hakaluki Haor">Hakaluki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanguar_Haor" title="Tanguar Haor">Tanguar</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harong_Hurong" title="Harong Hurong">Harong Hurong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khadim_Nagar_National_Park" title="Khadim Nagar National Park">Khadim Nagar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madani_Square" title="Madani Square">Madani Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Rajas%27" title="Museum of Rajas'">Museum of Rajas'</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osmani_Museum" title="Osmani Museum">Osmani Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratargul_Swamp_Forest" title="Ratargul Swamp Forest">Ratargul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tilagor_Eco_Park" title="Tilagor Eco Park">Tilagor Eco Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hum_Hum" title="Hum Hum">Hum Hum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaflong" title="Jaflong">Jaflong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaintia_Rajbari" title="Jaintia Rajbari">Jaintia Rajbari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kala_pahar" class="mw-redirect" title="Kala pahar">Kala pahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalakhal" title="Lalakhal">Lalakhal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawachara_National_Park" title="Lawachara National Park">Lawachara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhabkunda_waterfall" title="Madhabkunda waterfall">Madhabkunda waterfall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhobpur_Lake" title="Madhobpur Lake">Madhobpur Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malnicherra_Tea_Estate" title="Malnicherra Tea Estate">Malnicherra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rema-Kalenga_Wildlife_Sanctuary" title="Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary">Rema-Kalenga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satchari_National_Park" title="Satchari National Park">Satchari</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Places of worship</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ghayebi_Dighi_Masjid" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghayebi Dighi Masjid">Ghayebi Dighi Masjid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goyghor_Mosque" title="Goyghor Mosque">Goyghor Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jiladpur_Mosque" title="Jiladpur Mosque">Jiladpur Mosque</a></li> <li>Madrasah <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Madinatul_Uloom_Bagbari" title="Madinatul Uloom Bagbari">Bagbari Najibia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamia_Tawakkulia_Renga_Madrasah" title="Jamia Tawakkulia Renga Madrasah">Jamia Tawakkulia Renga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sagornal_Senior_Alim_Madrasha" title="Sagornal Senior Alim Madrasha">Sagornal Senior</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sujaul_Senior_Fazil_Madrasha" title="Sujaul Senior Fazil Madrasha">Sujaul Senior</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shah_Jalal_Dargah" title="Shah Jalal Dargah">Shah Jalal Dargah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylhet_Shahi_Eidgah" title="Sylhet Shahi Eidgah">Sylhet Shahi Eidgah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankarpasha_Shahi_Masjid" title="Shankarpasha Shahi Masjid">Shankarpasha Shahi Masjid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pagla_Jame_Masjid" class="mw-redirect" title="Pagla Jame Masjid">Pagla Jame Masjid</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cuisine</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akhni" title="Akhni">Akhni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aloo_chaat" class="mw-redirect" title="Aloo chaat">Aloo chaat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beef_Hatkora" class="mw-redirect" title="Beef Hatkora">Beef Hatkora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duck_Bamboo_Curry" title="Duck Bamboo Curry">Aash Bash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicken_tikka_masala" title="Chicken tikka masala">Chicken tikka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forash" title="Forash">Forash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citrus_macroptera" title="Citrus macroptera">Hatkhora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Handesh" title="Handesh">Handesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutki_Shira" class="mw-redirect" title="Hutki Shira">Hutki Shira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brassica_juncea" title="Brassica juncea">Lai haag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nunor_Bora" title="Nunor Bora">Nunor Bora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phall" title="Phall">Phall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Color_Tea" class="mw-redirect" title="Seven Color Tea">Seven Color Tea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soft_Khichuri" title="Soft Khichuri">Soft Khichuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chunga_Pitha" title="Chunga Pitha">Sunga fitha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylheti_cuisine" class="mw-redirect" title="Sylheti cuisine">Sylheti cuisine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thoikor_Tenga" title="Thoikor Tenga">Thoikor Tenga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tusha_Shinni" title="Tusha Shinni">Tusha Shinni</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Sylhet" class="mw-redirect" title="Economy of Sylhet">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chhatak_Cement_Factory" title="Chhatak Cement Factory">Chhatak Cement Factory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fenchuganj_Combined_Cycle_Power_Plant" title="Fenchuganj Combined Cycle Power Plant">Fenchuganj Combined Cycle Power Plant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tea_production_in_Bangladesh" title="Tea production in Bangladesh">Tea production</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Tea_Research_Institute" title="Bangladesh Tea Research Institute">Bangladesh Tea Research Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sreemangal_tea_auction_centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Sreemangal tea auction centre">Sreemangal tea auction centre</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shahjalal_Fertiliser_Factory" title="Shahjalal Fertiliser Factory">Shahjalal Fertiliser Factory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_natural_gas_fields_in_Bangladesh" title="List of natural gas fields in Bangladesh">Gas fields</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bibiana_Gas_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibiana Gas Field">Bibiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chhatak_Gas_Field" title="Chhatak Gas Field">Chhatak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fenchuganj_Gas_Field" title="Fenchuganj Gas Field">Fenchuganj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Habiganj_Gas_Field" title="Habiganj Gas Field">Habiganj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kailashtilla_Gas_Field" title="Kailashtilla Gas Field">Kailashtilla</a></li> <li><a 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