Barguna

Barguna is a town in southern Bangladesh and the administrative headquarters and largest town of Barguna District, which belongs to Barisal Division. It stands on the bank of the Khakdon River and covers about 45.57 square kilometres. The name is traditionally explained as coming from the Bengali word Baragun, meaning high tide, because timber traders from the north once had to wait here for the tide to carry their boats against the strong current of the river; another account ties the name to a Magh settler. The settlement grew from forest and Sundarbans land reclaimed for cultivation during the Mughal period, was administered as a resumed Sundarbans estate under the British from 1856, and its thana, or police station, was established in 1904. It is a coastal river town of the Bengal delta, with a population above one hundred thousand at the 2022 census.