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The region was originally called Sapta Sindhu Rivers, [3] the Vedic land of the seven rivers originally: Saraswati, Indus, Sutlej, Jehlum, Chenab, Ravi, and Beas. [4] The Sanskrit name for the region, as mentioned in the Ramayana and Mahabharata for example, was Pañcanada which means literally "Five Waters", and was translated from Sanskrit to Farsi as Panj-Âb after the Islamic conquests.
Map showing the Punjabi Sikh Empire. At its height in the first half of the 19th century, the Sikh Empire spanned a total of over 200,000 sq mi (520,000 km 2). [92] [93] [94] The Punjab was a region straddling India and the Afghan Durrani Empire. The following modern-day political divisions made up the historical Punjab region during the Sikh ...
English: This is a map showing each and every district of Punjab, along with its name. The map is accurate as of September 30, 2020 and has been made using data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics and UN OCHA's HumData Database (which citypopulation.de uses). Each color depicts a different administrative division (higher than a district but ...
03:47, 20 September 2021: 849 × 883 (1.53 MB) C1MM: Added better relief and boundaries: 22:46, 24 October 2020: 779 × 912 (2.23 MB) C1MM: Fixed background image: 16:30, 18 April 2020: 779 × 912 (822 KB) C1MM: Uploaded a work by Own work, derivative of Milenioscuro from Pakistan Punjab location map.svg with UploadWizard
The undivided Punjab, of which Punjab (Pakistan) forms a major region today, was home to a large minority population of Sikhs and Hindus unto 1947 apart from the Muslim majority. [213] The Gurdaspur district which is partially now part of the Indian state of Punjab had a slight Muslim majority (50.2% according to the 1941 census ) prior to the ...
A map of the distribution of native Punjabi speakers in India and Pakistan. With effect from 1 November 1966, there was yet another reorganisation, this time on linguistic lines, when the state of Punjab as constituted in 1956 was divided into three: the mostly Hindi-speaking part became the present-day Indian state of Haryana and the mostly Punjabi-speaking part became the present-day Punjab ...
Info This map is part of a series of location maps with unified standards: SVG as file format, standardised colours and name scheme. The boundaries on these maps always show the de facto situation and do not imply any endorsement or acceptance. In case of changes of the shown area the file is updated.
Module:Location map/data/Pakistan Punjab is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of [[Punjab, Pakistan]]. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.