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Western Punjab (other)
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Western Punjab may refer to: * Punjab, Pakistan, mostly used in contexts where Eastern Punjab refers to Punjab of India * West Punjab, a former province of the dominion of Pakistan * The western geographic region of Greater Punjab excluding the Lahore region (Central Punjab) See also * Western Punjabi (other) *Eastern Punjab (other) Eastern Punjab may refer to: * Punjab, India, mostly used in contexts where Western Punjab refers to Punjab of Pakistan * East Punjab, a former province of the dominion of India See also * Eastern Punjabi (other) Eastern Punjabi may re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjab, Pakistan
Punjab (; , ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in central-eastern region of the country, Punjab is the second-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the largest province by population. It shares land borders with the Pakistani provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the north-west, Balochistan to the south-west and Sindh to the south, as well as Islamabad Capital Territory to the north-west and Autonomous Territory of AJK to the north. It shares an International border with the Indian states of Rajasthan and Punjab to the east and Indian-administered Kashmir to the north-east. Punjab is the most fertile province of the country as River Indus and its four major tributaries Ravi, Jhelum, Chenab and Sutlej flow through it. The province forms the bulk of the transnational Punjab region, now divided among Pakistan and India. The provincial capital is Lahore — a cultural, modern, historical, economic, and cosmopolitan centre of Pakistan. Other major cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Punjab
West Punjab ( pnb, ; ur, ) was a province in the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955. The province covered an area of 159,344 km2 (61523 sq mi), including much of the current Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab province and the Islamabad Capital Territory, but excluding the former State of Bahawalpur, Princely state of Bahawalpur. The capital was the city of Lahore and the province was composed of four divisions (Lahore Division, Lahore, Sargodha Division, Sargodha, Multan Division, Multan and Rawalpindi Division, Rawalpindi). The province was bordered by the Bahawalpur (princely state), princely state of Bahawalpur to the south, the province of Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province), Baluchistan to the south-west and Sind Province (1936–1955), Sind to the south, North-West Frontier Province to the northwest, and Azad Kashmir to the north. It shared International border with Indian state of East Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Indian-administered Jammu & Kashmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi Language, Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also Romanization, romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of eastern Geography of Pakistan, Pakistan and northwestern Geography of India, India. Punjab's capital and largest city and historical and cultural centre is Lahore. The other major cities include Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Multan, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Sialkot, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, and Bahawalpur. Punjab grew out of the settlements along the five rivers, which served as an important route to the Near East as early as the ancient Indus Valley civilisation, Indus Valley civilization, dating back to 3000 BCE, and had numerous Indo-Aryan migration, migrations by the Indo-Aryan peoples. Agriculture has been the major economic feature of the Punjab and has therefore formed the foundation of Punjabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Punjabi (other)
Western Punjabi may refer to: *Lahnda, also known as "Western Punjabi", a linguistically defined group of Punjabi dialects and varieties primarily found in Western Punjab *the group of all the Punjabi varieties, whether Lahnda or not, that are spoken in Pakistan *the form of the standard Punjabi language Punjabi (; ; , ), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It has approximately 113 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 m ... in Pakistan (ISO 639-3: pnb) See also * Lahanda (other) * Western Punjab (other) * Eastern Punjabi (other) * Pakistani Punjabi (other) * Punjabi (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
