Fireedpoor, Or Dacca Jelalpoor, a district of the commissionership of Dacca, Bengal, British India, bounded X. by Mymunsing, E. by Dacca, S. by Backergunge, and W. by Jes-sore and Pubna; area, 2,052 sq. m.; pop. about 850,000. It is wholly alluvial, and, being intersected frequently by the Ganges and its branches, is periodically inundated, particularly in the S. and N. E. parts, which are low and marshy, but in the N. and N. W. the land is more elevated. The soil is of extraordinary fertility, producing large crops of rice, sugar cane, cotton, hemp, indigo, pulse, and oil seeds. Sugar, indigo, and rum are manufactured, and much coarse cotton cloth is made for home use. The population is composed of Mohammedans and Brahmans, about equally divided, the latter being the more numerous in the X. part. There are also several thousand native Christians, descendants of the off-spring of Portuguese men and native women. The district was granted to the East India company in 1765 by Shah Alum.-Fureedpoor, the capital of the district, is a straggling town on the right bank of the Ganges, 115 m. N. E. of Calcutta. The principal buildings are those of the civil departments of the government.

It was once a noted resort of river pirates.