Khulna (Division)

The Khulna Division ( Bengali: খুলনা বিভাগ, Khulna bibhāg ) is one of seven administrative units of Bangladesh, named the districts of superior and after their respective largest city. The area includes 22273.21 km ². It is located in the southwest of the country. The Population Division is approximately 15 million inhabitants. The administrative capital is the city of Khulna.

The Khulna division borders in the north to the management unit Rajshahi, on the east by Dhaka and Barisal, on the south by the Bay of Bengal and on the west by the Indian state of West Bengal.

The management unit is made up of ten districts and has 28 municipalities and numerous local Subverwaltungskategorien. The districts are: Bagerhat, Chuadanga, Jessore, Jhenaidah, Khulna, Kushtia, Magura, Meherpur, Narail and Satkhira.

Within the administrative unit in the districts of Satkhira, Bagerhat and Khulna are the Sundarbans, the delta region of the Ganges ( Padma in Bangladesh ) and Brahmaputra ( Jamuna in Bangladesh ).