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Bahawalpur was established in 1748 by Nawab Bahawal Khan I, [16] after he migrated to the region around Uch from Shikarpur, Sindh. [17] Bahawalpur replaced Derawar as the clan's capital city. [18] The city initially flourished as a trading post on trade routes between Afghanistan and central India. [19]
e. Bahawalpur (Urdu, Punjabi: بہاولپُور) was a princely state in subsidiary alliance with British Raj and later Dominion of Pakistan, that was a part of the Punjab States Agency. The state covered an area of 45,911 km 2 (17,726 sq mi) and had a population of 1,341,209 in 1941. The capital of the state was the town of Bahawalpur.
The twelve divisions of West Pakistan province were Bahawalpur, Dera Ismail Khan, Hyderabad, Kalat, Khairpur, Lahore, Malakand, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi, and Sargodha; all named after their capitals except the capital of Malakand was Saidu, and Rawalpindi was administered from Islamabad.
Bahawalpur is located in the southeast of Punjab province, the capital, Bahawalpur city, is 889 km from Karachi. The region surrounding Bahawalpur to the west, called the Sindh, is a fertile alluvial tract in the Sutlej River valley that is irrigated by floodwaters, planted with groves of date palms, and thickly populated.
South Punjab (Punjabi: دکھݨی پنجاب, romanized: Dakhṇī Panjāb; Urdu: جنوبی پنجاب, romanized: Junūbī Panjāb), [1][2] also proposed as Bahawalpur-South Punjab;[3] or Bahawalpur Janoobi Punjab; [4] are the names for the proposals to create a new province in Pakistan, out of the southern regions of Punjab. [5] The region ...
As of the 2023 Census, there are two megacities, ten million-plus cities, and 100 cities having a population of 100,000 or more. Of these 100 cities, 58 are located in the country's most populous province, Punjab, 22 in Sindh, 11 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, six in Balochistan, two in Azad Kashmir, and one in Islamabad Capital Territory.
Rawalpindi. Gujranwala. Multan. Sargodha. Bahawalpur. Sialkot. Sheikhupura. Rahim Yar Khan. The following table lists the 81 cities in Punjab with a population of at least 100,000 on 1 March 2023, according to the 2023 Census of Pakistan. [1][2] A city is displayed in bold if it is a state or federal capital.
The capital and largest city is Lahore which was the capital of the wider Punjab region since 17th century. Other important cities include Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Multan, Sialkot, Bahawalpur, Gujrat, Sheikhupura, Jhelum, Rahim Yar Khan and Sahiwal. The undivided Punjab region was home to six rivers, of which five flow ...