town, east-central Bangladesh. It lies along the Kundāli Khāl River, which is navigable during the rainy monsoon season. Formerly noted for muslin manufacture, it was the site of a factory (trading post) of the British East India Company. Kishorganj was constituted a municipality in 1869. It now contains sugar and paper mills and is connected by road and rail with Mymensingh and Bhairab Bāzār. Pop. (1981) 52,302.