Benapole

Benapole is a town at Sharsha Upazila in the Jessore District of Bangladesh, and the site of the largest land port in the country. The Petrapole customs station of India lies across the border, and since 1947 many people have travelled between Bangladesh and India through the Benapole customs and land port station, which is also an important rail transit point between the two countries. The land port is operated by the Bangladesh Land Port Authority and handles about 90 percent of the imported Indian goods that enter Bangladesh, with Kolkata about 80 kilometres away. During the 1971 liberation war Benapole served as the headquarters of Sector 8. The 2011 Bangladesh census recorded 8,563 households and a population of 36,524, and the road and rail links carry Asian Highway 1 and trains to Dhaka and Khulna.