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A small Masjid made of salt bricks inside the Khewra salt mine complex. Khewra Salt Mine is a major tourist attraction, with around 250,000 visitors a year, [7] earning it considerable revenue. [27] Visitors are taken into the mine on the Khewra Salt Mines Railway. [21] There are numerous pools of salty water inside.
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Khewra (Punjabi / Urdu: کھیوڑہ) is the second most populated city of Jhelum District and the neighbor city of Pind Dadan Khan in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan. [1] The city is administratively subdivided into two union councils [1] and is the location of the Khewra Salt Mine. The population of Khewra city is about 35,000 (or 80,000).
A small masjid made of salt bricks inside the Khewra salt mine complex. The Khewra Salt Mine (or Mayo Salt Mine) is located in Khewra, north of Pind Dadan Khan, [14] an administrative subdivision of Jhelum District, which rises from the Indo-Gangetic Plain. [15] It is Pakistan's largest and oldest salt mine [16] and the world's second largest.
The Khewra Salt Mines are among the world's oldest and biggest salt mines. Salt is mined at Khewra in an underground area of about 110 square kilometres (42 sq mi). Khewra salt mine has an estimated total of 220 million tonnes of rock salt deposits. The current production from the mine is 325,000 tons of salt per annum.
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Pind Dadan Khan Tehsil (Urdu/Punjabi: تحصیل پنڈ دادن خان) is a subdivision of Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan. [1] It is headquartered at the town of Pind Dadan Khan located on the bank of River Jhelum, about 22 kilometres from the M2 motorway. The area is well known for Khewra Salt Mines, Asia's largest salt mine.