Jhenaidah District: Difference between revisions

'''Jhenaidah District''' ({{lang-bn|ঝিনাইদহ}}) is a district in southwestern Bangladesh. Part of the [[Khulna Division]], the district has an area of {{cvt|1964.77|km2}}.<ref name=census>{{cite web | url=http://www.citypopulation.de/php/bangladesh-admin.php?adm1id=44 | title=Jhenaidah (District (Zila)) | access-date=3 May 2013}}</ref> It is bordered by [[Kushtia District]] to the north, [[Jessore District]] and [[West Bengal, India|West Bengal]] to the south, [[Rajbari District]] and [[Magura District]] to the east, and [[Chuadanga District]] and West Bengal to the west. The largest city and headquarters of this district is [[Jhenaidah]].<ref name="Banglapedia">{{cite book|author=BM Rezaul Karim|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh|publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]|year=2012|editor=Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal|edition=Second|chapter=Jhenaidah District|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Jhenaidah_District}}</ref> At the beginning of the British rule, Jhenaidah was a police outpost and was turned into a [[Thanas of Bangladesh|thana]] in 1793. It is the smallest district in Bangladesh. The Jhenaidah sub-division was established in 1862. It became a district in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wikimapia.org/24901555/Jhenaidah-District-Town|title = Jhenaidah District Town}}</ref>