Khulna, the third biggest city of Bangladesh and the divisional headquarter, started its journey as a municipality in 1884. The city is located in the South-Western part of Bangladesh about 333 km from Dhaka and stands on a natural levee of the Rupsa and Bhairab rivers. Khulna is just 2.15m above the mean sea level having Sundarbans and the Bay of Bengal at the south. It is the gateway of Mongla sea port.  Khulna is well connected to Dhaka by road, rail, water and air transport. It spreads over an area of 45.65 sq.km with the inhabitants of about 1.5 million. In this city people from diverse  religions live historically in a great harmony.  It is flourished with culture, heritage and nature with lot of sight seeing places. It is famous for shrimp processing and jute mills.