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- ↑ "NGA GeoName Database". National Geospatial Intelligence Agency . Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- ↑ "Population Census 2011: Sylhet Table C-01" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 10, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
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