Bakarganj,

Bakarganj, a British district in the Dacca division of India, under the lieutenant-governor of Bengal, contains 3649 sq. m. It is fertile, and is watered at once by the lower streams of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. In the south of the district are the forest tracts of the Sunderbunds. Barisal, the headquarters, on the west bank of Barisal River, is the only town with more than 5000 inhabitants. Bakarganj, the former capital, situated near the junction of the Krishnagati and Khairabad rivers, is now in ruins. Pop. (1881) 1,900,889; (1891) 2,153,695.