Bihanga Island is located at

Patharghata Upazila Patharghata ( bn, পাথরঘাটা উপজেলা) is an Upazila of Barguna District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh. Geography Patharghata is located at . It has 25,610 households and a total area of 387.36 km2. Dem ...

Barguna District Barguna ( bn, বরগুনা ''Borguna'') is a district in the Barisal Division, division of Barisal, Bangladesh. It is situated in the southern part of Bangladesh. Barguna subdivision was established in 1969 and promoted to district on 28 Fe ...

. It is an island of Baleshwari River. Although the island was discovered long ago, it was recently named ''Bihanga Island''. The name Bihanga in

Bengali language Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second m ...

means "bird". To the locals it is known as the Dhanseer Char. At one time, the island had a lot of ''Dhanshee'' plants. It is located close to the World Heritage

Sunderbans Sundarbans (pronounced ) is a mangrove area in Ganges Delta, the delta formed by the confluence of the Padma River, Padma, Brahmaputra River, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal. It spans the area from the Baleswar River in Bang ...

Geography

World Heritage Sundarbans in the west,

in the east, Chordwani Union and some parts of Sunderbans in the north and Baleshwari river in the south between the

Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line between ...

References

Islands of Bangladesh Barguna District {{island-stub