Punjab, Pakistan

                                                          Counter-clockwise from top left:

                                                                     Chenab River, Lahore Fort, Nankana Sahib, Faisalabad, 

                                                                                     Noor Mahal - Bahawalpur,

                                                               Masjid Wazir Khan - Lahore.

Punjab   panjab, "five waters", also spelled Panjab, is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 55.06% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir (Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir, India) to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the south, the province of Balochistan to the southwest, the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, and the Islamabad Capital Territory to the north. The Punjab is home to the Punjabis and various other groups. The main languages are Punjabi and Saraiki and the dialects of Mewati and Potowari. The name Punjab derives from the Persian words Panj (پنج) (Five), and Āb (آب) (Water), i.e. (the) Five Waters - referring to five tributaries of the Indus River which flow through the Punjab region: these being Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej.

Punjab is the most developed, most populous, and most prosperous province of Pakistan.Lahore has traditionally been the capital of Punjab for a thousand years; it is Punjab's main cultural, historical, administrative and economic center.Historically, the Punjab region has been the gateway to the Indian subcontinent for people from Greece, Central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan and Vice-versa.Due to its strategic location, it has been part of various empires and civilizations throughout history, including the Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic civilization, Mauryans, Kushans, Scythians, Guptas, Greeks, Persians, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Timurids, Mughals, Afghans, Sikhs and the British.

In the Rigveda, the sacred text of Vedism, the Punjab region is associated with the ancient Sapta Sindhu, the Land of Seven Rivers, whilst the later Greeks referred to Punjab as Pentapotamia, an inland delta of five converging rivers.The British used to call Punjab "Our Prussia''.

 

Sr.	District	Headquarters	Area (km²)	Population (1998)	Density (people/km²)
1	Attock	Attock	6,858	1,274,935	186
2	Bahawalnagar	Bahawalnagar	8,878	2,061,447	232
3	Bahawalpur	Bahawalpur	24,830	2,433,091	98
4	Bhakkar	Bhakkar	8,153	1,051,456	129
5	Chakwal	Chakwal	6,524	1,083,725	166
6	Chiniot	Chiniot		965,124
7	Dera Ghazi Khan	Dera Ghazi Khan	11,922	2043,118	138
8	Faisalabad	Faisalabad	5,856	5,429,547	927
9	Gujranwala	Gujranwala	3,622	3,400,940	939
10	Gujrat	Gujrat	3,192	2,048,008	642
11	Hafizabad	Hafizabad	2,367	832,980	352
12	Jhang	Jhang	8,809	2,834,545	322
13	Jhelum	Jhelum	3,587	936,957	261
14	Kasur	Kasur	3,995	2,375,875	595
15	Khanewal	Khanewal	4,349	2,068,490	476
16	Khushab	Khushab	6,511	905,711	139
17	Lahore	Lahore	1,772	6,318,745	3,566
18	Layyah	Layyah	6,291	1,120,951	178
19	Lodhran	Lodhran	2,778	1,171,800	422
20	Mandi Bahauddin	Mandi Bahauddin	2,673	1,160,552	434
21	Mianwali	Mianwali	5,840	1,056,620	181
22	Multan	Multan	3,720	3,116,851	838
23	Muzaffargarh	Muzaffargarh	8,249	2,635,903	320
24	Narowal	Narowal	2,337	1,265,097	541
25	Nankana Sahib	Nankana Sahib	2,960	1,410,000
26	Okara	Okara	4,377	2,232,992	510
27	Pakpattan	Pakpattan	2,724	1,286,680	472
28	Rahim Yar Khan	Rahim Yar Khan	11,880	3,141,053	264
29	Rajanpur	Rajanpur	12,319	1,103,618	90
30	Rawalpindi	Rawalpindi	5,286	3,363,911	636
31	Sahiwal	Sahiwal	3,201	1,843,194	576
32	Sargodha	Sargodha	5,854	2,665,979	455
33	Sheikhupura	Sheikhupura	5,960	3,321,029	557
34	Sialkot	Sialkot	3,016	2,723,481	903
35	Toba Tek Singh	Toba Tek Singh	3,252	1,621,593	499
36	Vehari	Vehari	4,364	2,090,416	479

Major cities

List of major cities in Punjab
Rank	City	District	Population	Lahore Faisalabad Rawalpindi
1	Lahore	Lahore	10,500,000
2	Faisalabad	Faisalabad	5,280,000
3	Rawalpindi	Rawalpindi	3,391,656
4	Multan	Multan	2,606,481
5	Gujranwala	Gujranwala	2,569,090
6	Sargodha	Sargodha	600,501
7	Bahawalpur	Bahawalpur	543,929
8	Sialkot	Sialkot	510,863
9	Sheikhupura	Sheikhupura	426,980
10	Jhang	Jhang	372,645
11	Gujrat	Gujrat	530,645
12	D.G.Khan	D.G.Khan	630,645
Source: World Gazetteer 2010
This is a list of each city's urban populations and does not indicate total district populations