FUREEDPORE, a town of Hindustan, the principal place of the British district of the same name, under the jurisdiction of the lieutenant-governor of Bengal, on the right or S.W. bank of the Ganges. The district of Fureedpore, which is also called Dacca Jelalpore, is bounded N. by the British district Mymensing, E. by Dacca, S. by Backergunge, W. by Jessore and Pubna. Area, 2052 square miles. It is altogether an alluvial tract, being intersected by the Ganges, and also by several feeders and offsets of that river. Pop. 855,000, which gives 416 to a square mile. The district was included in the grant of the Dewanny made by the emperor Shah Alum to the East India Company in 1765. The town is 115 miles N.E. of Calcutta, in Lat. 23. 36., Long. 89. 50. (E. T.)