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Sylhet সিলেট ꠍꠤꠟꠐ City Sylhet, bird view from Keane Bridge.jpg Sylhet Osmani Airport.jpg Sylhet Railway.jpg 05122009 Sylhet Circuit House photo1 Ranadipam Basu.jpg 05122009 Hazrat Shahjalal Majar Exit Sylhet photo1 Ranadipam Basu.jpg সিলেট আন্তর্জাতিক ক্রিকেট স্টেডিয়ামের গ্যালারি.jpg From top: City Skyline, Sylhet MAG Osmani International Airport, Sylhet Central Railway station, Sylhet Circuit House, Sufi Shah Jalal Shrine, Sylhet International Cricket Stadium Sylhet is located in Bangladesh SylhetSylhet Location of Sylhet in Bangladesh Coordinates: 24°54′N 91°52′ECoordinates: 24°54′N 91°52′E Country Bangladesh Division Sylhet Division District Sylhet Municipal Board 1867 Sylhet City Corporation 9 April 2001 Metropolitan city 31 March 2009[2] Government • Type Mayor–Council • Body Sylhet City Corporation • City Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury (Bangladesh National Party) Area • City 26.50 km2 (10.23 sq mi) • Metro 110 km2 (40 sq mi) Elevation 35 m (115 ft) Population (2011) • City 531,663[1] metro-8,00,000 Demonym(s) Sylheti Time zone BST (UTC+6) Postal code 3100 Police Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP)[3] International airport Osmani International Airport Regional Calling code +880821 Website scc.gov.bd Sylhet (Bengali: সিলেট, Sylheti Nagari: ꠍꠤꠟꠐ), also known as Jalalabad, the spiritual capital; is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh. 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.[1] 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. The city's dargahs, or burial sites of Muslim saints, attract several thousand devotees each year. The name of Sylhet is the anglicized form of the ancient Indo-Aryan term Srihatta.[4] In 1303, the Sufi Muslim leader Shah Jalal conquered Sylhet by defeating the local Hindu Raja.[5] Ibn Battuta visited Sylhet in the 14th century and saw Bengali Muslims transforming the region into an agricultural basket.[6] Sylhet was a mint town of the Bengal Sultanate. In the 16th-century, Sylhet was controlled by the Baro-Bhuyan zamindars and became a district of the Mughal Empire.[7] 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.[8] 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.[5] The Sylhet City Corporation was constituted in 2001. The Government of Bangladesh designated Sylhet a metropolitan area in 2009.[9]