Basirhat

 city, taluka headquarter

Tehsil Basirhat, District North 24 Pargana (Barasat), Bengal, Bharat.

Also spelled Basirhat Town
A major town located along the western banks of the Ichamati River in Bengal. It is also the closest town from Satkhira (25 kms only), which politicially at present falls in Bangladesh. It is also not far from Kolkata (65 kms), making it a strategically important town between India & Bangladesh. The land port of Ghojadanga-Bhomra border is located about 10 kms from Basirhat.
Basirhat is also the headquarters of the Basirhat subdivision of the Uttar 24 Pargana District. There has been a proposal to carve out a separate Basirhat district in recent years. It well connected with Kolkata by road and rail.
The name of Basirhat probably comes from the Old Bangla word 'Bashir' meaning sea-salt as there was a big market of salt in Basirhat (Hat meaning market).