Punjab (Pakistan)

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پنجاب
Punjab

Emblem and flag
Basic data
Capital :	Lahore
Status:	province
Area :	205,344 km²
Residents :	110,012,442 (2017 census)
Population density :	535.7 inh / km² (2017)
ISO 3166-2 :	PK-PB
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Provinces in Pakistan by economic output 1973-2000 (as a share of the total economy of the country)

Division of Punjab Province into districts

Punjab and Punjab ( Punjabi and Urdu پنجاب) is the most populous province of Pakistan . It covers the Pakistani part of the greater Punjab landscape , has an area of ​​205,344 km² and, according to the 2017 census, 110,012,442 inhabitants (2017). The capital of Punjab is Lahore . More than half of the Pakistani population lives in the province.

geography

The Punjab province borders the Pakistani provinces of Sindh , Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - with it the Islamabad Capital Territory surrounds - to which semi-autonomous Asad Jammu and Kashmir as well as to the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan (in a clockwise direction , starting in the southwest).

The provincial capital of Punjab is Lahore . Other important cities are Faisalabad , Rawalpindi , Multan and Gujranwala . Rivers from west to east are the Indus , Jhelam , Chanab , Ravi and the Satluj .

→ Main articles : List of cities in Pakistan  and List of rivers in Pakistan

population

The most common mother tongues in Punjab are Punjabi with 75.2% of the population and Saraiki, which some consider to be a dialect of Punjabi, with 17.4% of the population. Another 4.5% speak Urdu as their mother tongue. (Data from the 1998 census).

97.2% of the population are Muslim , another 2.3% are Christians . Of the minorities of the Hindus (1941 census: 13.3%) and the Sikh (1941 census: other 11.9%), which were numerous before the partition of India and Punjab , only small remnants remained.

The literacy rate in 2014/15 among the population over 10 years of age was 63% (women: 55%, men: 71%), making it the highest among the 4 provinces of Pakistan.

Population development

Punjab census population since the first census in 1951.

Census year	population
1951	20,540,762
1961	25,463,974
1972	37,607,423
1981	47.292.441
1998	73.621.290
2017	110.012.615

economy

Punjab is the country's richest province and is responsible for a large part of the country's industrial production. Punjab has the highest literacy rate and the lowest poverty rate of all Pakistani provinces. With almost 40% of the population, it is also one of the most urbanized parts of the country. The north around the capital Lahore is considered to be significantly more prosperous than the backward south of the province. Important sectors are textile processing, construction and agriculture.

Due to the large demographic weight of the province, a large part of the state budget goes to the province of Punjab, triggering distribution struggles and fueling separatism in other regions of the country, especially in Balochistan and Sindh. Since the country was founded, the prosperity gap between Punjab Province and the rest of the country has grown steadily.

Administrative division

Divisions

Division of the Punjab Province into divisions

The province is divided into 9 divisions, which in turn are divided into districts.

No.	Divisions	Capital	Size (km²)	Population (2017)
1	Bahawalpur	Bahawalpur	45,588	11,464,031
2	Dera Ghazi Khan	Dera Ghazi Khan	38,778	11,014,398
3	Faisalabad	Faisalabad	17,917	14,177,081
4th	Gujranwala	Gujranwala	17.206	16.123.984
5	Lahore	Lahore	16,104	19,398,081
6th	Multan	Multan	21,137	12.265.161
7th	Rawalpindi	Rawalpindi	22,255	10,007,821
8th	Sahiwal	Sahiwal	10.302	7,380,386
9	Sargodha	Sargodha	26,360	8,181,499

Districts

There are 36 districts in Pakistan's Punjab Province

No.	District	Capital	Size (km²)	Population (2017)	Density (inh / km²)	division
1	Attock	Attock	6,858	1,883,556	274	Rawalpindi
2	Bahawalnagar	Bahawalnagar	8,878	2,981,919	335	Bahawalpur
3	Bahawalpur	Bahawalpur	24,830	3,668,106	147	Bahawalpur
4th	Bhakkar	Bhakkar	8,153	1,650,518	202	Sargodha
5	Chakwal	Chakwal	6,524	1,495,982	229	Rawalpindi
6th	Chiniot	Chiniot	2,643	1,369,740	518	Faisalabad
7th	Dera Ghazi Khan	Dera Ghazi Khan	11,922	2,872,201	240	Dera Ghazi Khan
8th	Faisalabad	Faisalabad	5,856	7,873,910	1,344	Faisalabad
9	Gujranwala	Gujranwala	3,622	5,014,196	1,384	Gujranwala
10	Gujrat	Gujrat	3,192	2,756,110	863	Gujranwala
11	Hafizabad	Hafizabad	2,367	1,156,957	488	Gujranwala
12	Jhang	Jhang	8,809	2,743,416	311	Faisalabad
13	Jhelam	Jhelam	3,587	1,222,650	340	Rawalpindi
14th	Kasur	Kasur	4,796	3,454,996	720	Lahore
15th	Khanewal	Khanewal	4,349	2,921,986	671	Multan
16	Khushab	Khushab	6,511	1,281,299	196	Sargodha
17th	Lahore	Lahore	1,772	11,126,285	6,278	Lahore
18th	Layyah	Layyah	6,291	1,824,230	290	Dera Ghazi Khan
19th	Lodhran	Lodhran	2,778	1,700,620	612	Multan
20th	Mandi Bahauddin	Mandi Bahauddin	2,673	1,593,292	596	Gujranwala
21st	Mianwali	Mianwali	5,840	1,546,094	264	Sargodha
22nd	Multan	Multan	3,720	4,745,109	1,275	Multan
23	Muzaffargarh	Muzaffargarh	8,249	4,322,009	523	Dera Ghazi Khan
24	Narowal	Narowal	2,337	1,709,757	731	Gujranwala
25th	Nankana Sahib	Nankana Sahib	2,960	1,356,374	458	Lahore
26th	Okara	Okara	4,377	3,039,139	694	Sahiwal
27	Pakpattan	Pakpattan	2,724	1,823,687	669	Sahiwal
28	Rahimyar Khan	Rahimyar Khan	11,880	4,814,006	405	Bahawalpur
29	Rajanpur	Rajanpur	12,319	1,995,958	162	Dera Ghazi Khan
30th	Rawalpindi	Rawalpindi	5,286	5,405,633	1,322	Rawalpindi
31	Sahiwal	Sahiwal	3,201	2,517,560	786	Sahiwal
32	Sargodha	Sargodha	5,854	3,703,588	632	Sargodha
33	Sheikhupura	Sheikhupura	5,960	3,460,426	580	Lahore
34	Sialkot	Sialkot	3,016	3,893,672	1,291	Gujranwala
35	Toba Tek Singh	Toba Tek Singh	3,252	2,190,015	673	Faisalabad
36	Vehari	Vehari	4,364	2,897,446	663	Multan

history

With the partition of India in 1947, the larger western part of Punjab with the capital Lahore became part of the new state of Pakistan. This division resulted in civil war-like conditions: Hindus fled to the east and Muslims to the west. Both sides carried out numerous massacres of the other group over several weeks.

Web links

Commons : Punjab  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the province

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population and Statistics of Pakistan
2. ↑ ^{a b} Pakistan Bureau of Statistics | 6th Population and Housing Census. Retrieved November 9, 2017 . 
3. ^ Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (2016). Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2014–2015. Government of Pakistan, accessed June 29, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Northern Punjab, urban Sindh people more prosperous than rest of country: report - The Express Tribune . In: The Express Tribune . June 20, 2016 ( com.pk [accessed April 2, 2018]).

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