Bhola District

Bhola ( Bengali: ভোলা জেলা, Bhola Jela ) is an administrative district in southern Bangladesh, which lies within the Barisal Division, the parent administrative unit.

The 3403.48 km ² large district, composed of islands, bordered to the north by the neighboring districts of Barisal and Lakshmipur, in the east again to Lakshmipur, but also to the district Noakhali. In addition, on the eastern edge formed by the River Meghna naturally limit. In the south of the Bay of Bengal and west of the river Tentulia is. Bhola also shares a common border in the west with the district of Patuakhali.

Bhola is divided into five Subdistrikte, the so-called Upazilas: Bhola Sadar, Daulatkhan, Burdanuddin, Tazumuddin, Manpura, Lalmohan and Charfasson. Within this sub- administrative structures there are 60 Union Parishads (village councils), 460 villages and four five city councils.

The eponymous district capital is the nearly 40,000 inhabitants Bhola.