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Sylhet
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Sylhet (sĭlhĕt`), city (1991 pop. 117,398), E Bangladesh, on the Surma River. It is the administrative center for a district of rice and tea cultivation; there is extensive limestone quarrying. The city has an international airport. Sylhet, which has manufactures in tea, matches, vegetable oil, and canes, is also a center of Islamic culture and the site of several tombs of Muslim holy men. In the city are eight colleges affiliated with the Univ. of Chittagong.
Sylhet 

a city in the extreme northeast of Bangladesh, on the Surma River. Administrative center of Sylhet District. Population, 37,700 (1961). A river port and trade center, Sylhet has a railroad station and a food-processing industry.



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Mae Muhammed Emdadur Rahman yn wreiddiol o Silhet ym Mangladesh, ond wedi ymgartrefu ar Ynys Mon ers bron i bymtheng mlynedd erbyn.
 
 
 
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