Barisal

[ buhr-uh-sahl, bar-uh-sawl ]

noun

1. a port city in S Bangladesh, on the Ganges River.

Example Sentences

China helped with two coal plants, in Barisal and Payra.

From New York Times

Mr Hossain was born in Barisal, Bangladesh, and came to the UK in 1995.

From BBC

We started near Sealdah station, where my grandmother had stepped off the train from Barisal in 1946, with five boys and four steel trunks in tow.

From Literature

In his ancestral village of Dehergoti, near Barisal, Jagu’s psyche had somehow been tethered to his friends and his family.

From Literature

They live in Barisal, one of the oldest municipalities and river ports in the country.

From New York Times