Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Bangladesh near the Ganges River delta. It is a trade and processing center for a large, swampy, forested region.
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- proper noun A prefecture-level
city inKhulna District ,western Bangladesh
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Examples
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At Khulna, for example, there was a kind of genocide, but it was perpetrated by Bengalis against the non-Bengalis they worked beside in the town's jute mills.
It's not the arithmetic of genocide that's important. It's that we pay attention | Ian Jack 2011
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It was my birthday lunch in Khulna, a town in Bangladesh that we'd reached that morning by the overnight steamer from Dhaka.
It's not the arithmetic of genocide that's important. It's that we pay attention | Ian Jack 2011
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After its defeat, with Bangladesh's independence established, Khulna's Bengali mill workers repeated their original atrocity of the previous year and sent thousands more non-Bengalis into the rivers.
It's not the arithmetic of genocide that's important. It's that we pay attention | Ian Jack 2011
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Mr. Shankar said that feasibility studies for the power plants -- planned at Khulna and Chittagong -- are expected by January, 2011.
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Plus, Jessore is close to the Sundarban Forest, the world's largest mangrove forest and Bangladesh's top tourist destination; most tourists fly into Jessore and then take a boat from Khulna or Mongla into the forest.
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Mean annual rainfall varies from about 1,800 millimeters (mm) at Khulna, north of the Sundarbans, to 2,790mm on the coast.
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A report from Khulna says, the 2nd day of the 'National Mourning' was observed here as elsewhere in the country to pay respect to the army officials, who were killed in the Wednesday's BRD rebellion at its Pilkhana headquarters in Dhaka.
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Climatic data for Khulna are summarised by Christensen.
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Confirm news coming from Chittagong, Netkrokona, Jessor, Teknaf, Sylhet, Dinajpur, Satkhira, Khulna, Thakurgaon that heavy gun firing still going on between BDR & Bangladesh army.
Tension increase all over Bangladesh : BDR camps in high alert 2009
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For example, The Kapatakhi is one of the well known rivers in Bangladesh, which is situated in Khulna division.
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