سلهط সিলেট ꠍꠤꠟꠐ Sylhet
Metropolis
From the top:Sylhet Skyline with Keane Bridge, Osmani International Airport, Sylhet railway station, Sylhet Circuit House, Shah Jalal, Sylhet International Cricket Stadium.
سلهط أظهر خريطة بنگلادش سلهط أظهر خريطة آسيا سلهط أظهر خريطة الأرض Location of Sylhet in Bangladesh
الإحداثيات: Coordinates:
البلد	بنگلادش
Division	Sylhet Division
القسم	سلهط
Municipal Board	1867
Sylhet City Corporation	9 أبريل 2001
Metropolitan city	31 March 2009
الحكم
• النوع	Mayor–Council
• الهيئة	Sylhet City Corporation
• العمدة	عارف الحق شودري (BNP)
المساحة
• الحضر	26٫5 كم² (10٫2 ميل²)
• العمران	518٫43 كم² (200٫17 ميل²)
الارتفاع	35 m (115 ft)
التعداد(2011)
• Metropolis	526٬412 metro-800٬000
• الكثافة	19٬865/km2 (51٬450/sq mi)
صفة المواطن	Sylheti
منطقة التوقيت	BST (التوقيت العالمي المنسق+6)
Postal code	3100
Police	Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP)
International airport	Osmani International Airport
Regional Calling code	+880821
المسقط الإلكتروني	scc.gov.bd

سلهط (Sylhet ، بالبنغالي: সিলেট)، هي مدينة عمرانية في شمال شرق بنگلادش. It is the administrative seat of Sylhet Division. The city is located on the right bank of the Surma River in northeastern Bengal. It has a subtropical climate and lush highland terrain. The city has a population of more than half a million. Sylhet is one of Bangladesh's most important spiritual and cultural centres. It is one of the most important cities of Bangladesh, after Dhaka and Chittagong due to its importance to the country's economy. Sylhet produces the highest amount of tea and gas in the country.

The name of Sylhet is the anglicized form of the ancient Indo-Aryan term Srihatta. In 1303, the Sultan of Lakhnauti Shamsuddin Firoz Shah conquered Sylhet by defeating Gour Govinda. Sylhet was a realm of the Bengal Sultanate. In the 16th-century, Sylhet was controlled by the Baro-Bhuyan zamindars and later became a sarkar (district) of the Mughal Empire. Sylhet emerged as the Mughals' most significant imperial outpost in the east and its importance remained as such throughout the seventeenth century.British rule began in the 18th century under the administration of the East India Company. With its ancient seafaring tradition, Sylhet became a key source of lascars in the British Empire. The Sylhet municipal board was established in 1867. Originally part of the Bengal Presidency and later Eastern Bengal and Assam; the town was part of Colonial Assam between 1874 and 1947, when following a referendum and the partition of British India, it became part of East Bengal. The Sylhet City Corporation was constituted in 2001. The Government of Bangladesh designated Sylhet a metropolitan area in 2009.

The hinterland of the Sylhet valley is the largest oil and gas-producing region in Bangladesh. It is also the largest hub of tea production in Bangladesh. It is notable for its high-quality cane and agarwood. The city is served by the Osmani International Airport which is named after General M A G Osmani, the Commander of the Bangladesh Liberation Forces. People from Sylhet form a significant portion of the Bangladeshi diaspora, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as other countries in the Middle East.

أصل الاسم

The name Sylhet is anglicized from Srihatta. In Indo-Aryan languages, Sri means prestige or beauty. Hatta (Haat) is a term for a marketplace. The name of the region was changed to Jalalabad during the Sultanate period, but the actual town of Srihatta kept its name. In the Mughal Empire's records, Srihatta was used as the name for the city in the Bengal Subah. In British India, Srihatta became known as Sylhet in English.

التاريخ

In 1995, the Government of Bangladesh declared Sylhet as the sixth divisional headquarters of the country. Sylhet has played a vital role in the Bangladeshi economy. Several of Bangladesh's finance ministers have been Members of Parliament from the city of Sylhet. Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran was a longtime mayor of Sylhet. Humayun Rashid Choudhury, a diplomat from Sylhet, served as President of the UN General Assembly and Speaker of the Bangladesh National Parliament.

In 2001, the municipality was upgraded to the Sylhet City Corporation. It was made a metropolitan city in 2009.

الجغرافيا والطقس

Sylhet is located at , in the north eastern region of Bangladesh within the Sylhet Division, within the Sylhet District and Sylhet Sadar Upazila. Sylhet has a typical Bangladesh tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) bordering on a humid subtropical climate (Cwa) 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 milliمترs (170 بوصة) occurs between May and September.

The city is located within the region where there are hills and basins which constitute one of the most distinctive regions in Bangladesh. The physiography of Sylhet consists mainly of hill soils, encompassing a few large depressions known locally as "beels" which can be mainly classified as oxbow lakes, caused by tectonic subsidence primarily during the earthquake of 1762.

Geologically, the region is complex having diverse sacrificial geomorphology; high topography of Plio-Miocene age. Available limestone deposits in different parts of the region suggest that the whole area was under the ocean in the Oligo-Miocene. In the last 150 years three major earthquakes hit the city, at a magnitude of at least 7.5 on the Richter Scale, the last one took place in 1918, although many people are unaware that Sylhet lies on an earthquake prone zone.

الادارة

Sylhet is divided intoستة metropolitan thanas(police station) and consists of 27 wards and 224 mahallas. The thanas are:

• Bimanbandar Thana
• Kotwali Thana Google Maps
• Jalalabad Thana Google Maps
• Dakshin Surma Thana Google Maps
• Mogla Bazar Thana Google Maps
• Shah Paran Thana

الديمغرافيا

According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, the city had a population of 531,663. The population growth rate of the city is 1.73%, which has reduced from 1.93% in 1991.

الشتات

الاقتصاد

The Sylhet Metropolitan Area is one of Bangladesh's main business centers. Sylhet's economy is closely linked with the Bangladeshi diaspora, especially the British Bangladeshi community. The city receives a significant portion of the country's annual remittances, which have driven growth in real estate and construction.

الثقافة

Transport

Rail

The Sylhet Railway Station is the main railway station providing trains on national routes operated by the state-run Bangladesh Railway. Some important train that origins/terminates :

Towards Dhaka

باتجاه Chittagong

باتجاه أكاهورا

التعليم

أشخاص بارزون

البلدات التوأم والمدن الشقيقة

سلهط متوأمة مع:

انظر أيضاً

• Sylheti language
• Sylheti Nagari
• Barak Valley

المراجع

وصلات خارجية

• Media related to سلهط at Wikimedia Commons

Parabat Express [[voy:سلهط#خطأ لوا في وحدة:Wikidata على السطر 866: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).|سلهط]] travel guide from Wikivoyage

• Official website of Sylhet City Corporation
• Sylhet Tourist Places Video

نطقب:Largest cities of Bangladesh

نطقب:Sylhet District