Sylhet district
6 parliamentary seats · 13 upazilas. The current member for each seat, according to Parliament's database.
About Sylhet district
Sylhet District, located in north-east Bangladesh, is one of the four districts in Sylhet Division, which contains Sylhet, the regional capital.
History
Administrative functions of Sylhet District commenced in 1772 when the East India Company appointed William Makepeace Thackeray as its first collector. And until 1878 it remained a part of Bengal Province under the Dhaka Division. However, in that year, Sylhet was moved to the newly created Assam Province, and it remained as part of Assam up to 1947. Sylhet District was divided into five subdivisions and the current Sylhet District was known as the North Sylhet subdivision. In 1947, Sylhet became a part of East Pakistan as a result of a referendum as part of Chittagong Division.
Geography
Sylhet has a typical Bangladeshi tropical monsoon climate bordering on a humid subtropical climate at higher elevations. The rainy season starts from April to October and it is so hot and humid with very heavy showers and thunderstorms almost every day, whilst the short dry season starts from November to February and it is very warm and fairly clear.
People
According to 2022 Census of Bangladesh, Sylhet district had 746854 households and a population of 3,857,123, 26.25% of whom lived in urban areas. The population density was 1,117 people per square kilometre. 20.29% were under 10 years of age.
Source: Wikipedia, Sylhet District · CC BY-SA 4.0
Notable people of Sylhet
- Shah Jalal, Sufi saint and mystic
- Shah Paran, Sufi saint
- Shah Abdul Karim, Baul folk singer, composer
- Nurul Islam Nahid, former Education Minister of Bangladesh
- Dilwar Khan, poet
- Salman Shah, film actor, model
- Sahara Chowdhury, LGBT activist
- Shuvro Dev, playback singer
- Syed Ahmed, businessman, British TV personality
- Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, Mayor of Sylhet City Corporation
- Enam Ali, restaurateur and founder of the British Curry Awards
Map of the district
Boundaries from the Election Commission's description of the seats, drawn on the maps of OpenStreetMap (upazilas), OCHA (city corporations) and geoBoundaries (city wards; BBS, 2015); approximate. Background map from OpenStreetMap. 6 seats; tap an area to open that seat's page.
Seats and their members
Sylhet is a district in Sylhet division with 6 seats in Parliament: Sylhet-1, Sylhet-2 (Bishwanath and Osmani Nagar upazilas), Sylhet-3, Sylhet-4 (Companiganj, Gowainghat and Jaintiapur upazilas), Sylhet-5 (Kanaighat and Zakiganj upazilas) and Sylhet-6 (Beanibazar and Golapganj upazilas). In the 13th Parliament, of these seats the BNP holds 5 and Khelafat Majlis 1. In the 12th Parliament (2024), of these seats the Awami League held 5 and an independent 1.
Khandakar Abdul MuktadirSylhet-1, BNP
Mst. Tahsina RushdirSylhet-2, BNP
Mohammed Abdul MaliqueSylhet-3, BNP
Ariful Haque ChoudhurySylhet-4, BNP
Mohammed Abul HasanSylhet-5, Khelafat Majlis
Emran Ahmed ChowdhurySylhet-6, BNP
Source: Parliament of Bangladesh | Updated 24 October 2026