Borhanuddin

Borhanuddin is a town in Bhola District in Barisal Division, Bangladesh, the administrative headquarters and urban centre of Borhanuddin Upazila, which lies about 22 kilometres south of Bhola town. The place grew from a market, Borhanuddin Haat, named after Borhanuddin Chowdhury Hawladar, whose family held the Kaliganj area. It was first set up as a replacement police station (thana) headquarters in 1876 after a flood damaged the former thana at nearby Borhanganj, and it was officially established as a thana in 1928. The thana became an upazila on 15 April 1983. The upazila is divided into Borhanuddin Municipality and nine union parishads, among them Deula, Sachra and Tobgi.