Barisal City is an old port at the mouth of the River Ganges on the northern shore of the Bay of Bengal in southern Bangladesh. It is now the divisional headquarters of the Barisal Division and consists of 30 wards and 50 mahallas. The area of the town is 16.37 kmē. Barisal municipality was established in 1957 and was turned into a City Corporation in 2000.
Barisal was a semi-independent area in Mughal period. In course of time, it fell under Bengal Nawab and British India, later passed to Bangladesh.
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