Pirojpur is a district in South-western Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

. It is a part of the Barisal Division

Barisal Division

Barisal Division is located in south-central Bangladesh, with an area of 13,644.85 km2, and with a population of 8,147,000 at the 2011 Census . It is bounded by Dhaka division on the north, the Bay of Bengal on the south, Chittagong division on the east and Khulna division on the west...

.

Name

Myth exist that, second son of Shah Shuja, Firoz Shah died in this area and in honour of him, the area started to being calld 'Firozpur'.
In time 'Firozpur' was slowly turned to pronounced as 'Pirozpur'.

Geography

Pirojpur is also the name of a city of about 100,000 people. Most of the land is low lying and the soil is fertile. There are small forests.

Religion

The district of Pirojpur consists 3934 mosques, 15 temples and two churches.

Upazila

Pirojpur district is divided into seven upazilas :

1)Pirojpur Sadar Upazila

Pirojpur Sadar Upazila

Pirojpur Sadar is an Upazila of Pirojpur District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh.-Geography:Pirojpur Sadar is located at . It has 41893 units of house hold and total area 278.37 km².-Demographics:...

2)Nesarabad (Swarupkati) Upazila

3)Mathbaria Upazila

Mathbaria Upazila

Mathbaria is an Upazila of Pirojpur District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh.-Geography:Mathbaria is located at . It has 48139 units of house hold and total area 353.25 km².-Demographics:...

4)Bhandaria Upazila

Bhandaria Upazila

Bhandaria is an Upazila of Pirojpur District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh.-Geography:Bhandaria is located at . It has 27969 units of house hold and total area 163.56 km².-Demographics:...

5)Zianogar (former Indoorkani)

6)Nazirpur Upazila

Nazirpur Upazila

Nazirpur is an Upazila of Pirojpur District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh.-Geography:Nazirpur is located at . It has 31862 units of house hold and total area 233.65 km².-Demographics:...

 and

7)Kawkhali Upazila

Kawkhali Upazila

Kawkhali is an Upazila of Pirojpur District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh.-Geography:Kawkhali is located at . It has 13,763 households and a total area 79.64 km².-Demographics:...

The subdivision (mohokooma)of Pirojpur was created in 1866. The Pirojpur municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 was established in 1985.

Nesarabad

Nesarabad

It is a upazila of Pirojpur District. Swarupkathi or Shoroopkaathi is the popular name of this upazila. Nesarabad is named after a famous Islamic scholar Maulana Nesar Uddin . He was the founder of Shorshina Madrassa, a famous Islamic seminary in Barisal Division. Mierhat and Inderhat are famous...

 is famous for business centres and also for the Sundori tree (a kind of mangrove

Mangrove

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 tree) that grows there.

Launch

Launch (boat)

A launch in contemporary usage refers to a large motorboat. The name originally referred to the largest boat carried by a warship. The etymology of the word is given as Portuguese lancha "barge", from Malay lancha, lancharan, "boat," from lanchar "velocity without effort," "action of gliding...

es, steamers

Steamboat

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 and boats are used for travelling on the rivers. The port there is called Hoolarhaat Launch Station (ghaat). Buses, autorickshaws and rickshaws

Cycle rickshaw

The cycle rickshaw is a small-scale local means of transport; it is also known by a variety of other names such as velotaxi, pedicab, bikecab, cyclo, becak, trisikad, or trishaw or, simply, rickshaw which also refers to auto rickshaws, and the, now uncommon, rickshaws pulled by a person on foot...

 are also used for transport.

COLLAGE

• Districts of Bangladesh
  Districts of Bangladesh
  The divisions of Bangladesh are divided into 64 districts, or zila . The districts are further subdivided into 493 sub-districts, or upazila ....
  
  
• Barisal Division
  Barisal Division
  Barisal Division is located in south-central Bangladesh, with an area of 13,644.85 km2, and with a population of 8,147,000 at the 2011 Census . It is bounded by Dhaka division on the north, the Bay of Bengal on the south, Chittagong division on the east and Khulna division on the west...
  
  

External links

• Daily News of Pirojpur District - Amader Barisal Newspaper