Jamshoro ( sd, ڄام شورو, ur, ) is a city and the capital of Jamshoro District, located in

Sindh Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...

, Pakistan. It is located on the right bank of the

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, approximately northwest of Hyderabad and northeast from the provincial capital of

, Karachi. This city is popularly known as Education City. Four major universities of Sindh are located in the vicinity of this city.

History

Ranikot Fort is a historical fort near Sann, Jamshoro District,

, Pakistan. Ranikot Fort is also known as the Great Wall of Sindh and is believed to be the world's largest fort with a circumference of approximately . Since 1993, it has been on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Archaeologists point to the 17th century as its time of first construction but now

archaeologists Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

agree that some of the present structure was reconstructed by

Mir Karam Ali Khan Talpur Baloch ''Mir'' (russian: Мир, ; ) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to&n ...

and his brother

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in 1812 at a cost of 1.2 million rupees (

Gazetteer, 677).

Universities

* University of Sindh * Mehran University of Engineering and Technology * Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences

Schools and colleges

Cadet College Petaro Cadet College Petaro is a military boarding school in Jamshoro District of the southern province of Sindh in Pakistan; about 20 miles (32 km) from Hyderabad which is under administration of Pakistan Navy. Its campus occupies over 700 acres ...

* Pak Turk International School & College Jamshoro * The City School Jamshoro campus * The Educators Branch Jamshoro *

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* Pioneers School and college jamshoro campus

Location

Jamshoro, is situated on the right bank of the

at south-west position of Province of Sindh sloping from direction North-east to south-west and is about 18 kilometers far from Hyderabad and at a distance of 150 kilometers from Karachi.

Demographics

The population of Jamshoro District increased from 582,094 in 1998 to 1,176,969 in 2011, an increase of 102.2%. Roughly, 95% of the Population of the city consists of immigrants from various parts of interior

who migrated to the town in around 1948-2001 & to a lesser extent from 2002 to 2014 decades. Therefore, the city holds a number of diverse Sindhi clans & ethnic groups mainly from Jamshoro District, Dadu District, Sukkur District, Larkana District, Khairpur District,

Umarkot District Umerkot District ( Dhatki: عمرکوٹ / عمرڪوٽ, sd, عمرڪوٽ ضلعو, ur, ), also known as Amarkot District, is a district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The city of Umerkot is the capital of the district. Sindhi is the nat ...

, Matiari District, Nawabshah District, Shikarpur District,

Tharparker Tharparkar ( Dhatki/ sd, ٿرپارڪر, ur, ), also known as Thar, is a district in Sindh province in Pakistan headquartered at Mithi. Before Indian independence it was known as the Thar and Parkar district. The district is the largest in ...

, Naushahro Feroze District, Badin District & Jacobabad District. The city is predominantly Sindhi with a substantial community of Pathans, Baloch people &

Seraikis The Saraikis ( skr, ), are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group inhabiting parts of central and southeastern Pakistan, primarily in the southern part of the Pakistani province of Punjab They are mainly found in a region of southern Punjab known ...

. Small communities of

Brahuis The Brahui ( brh, ), Brahvi or Brohi, are an ethnic group of pastoralists principally found in Balochistan, Pakistan. A minority speaks the Brahui language, which belongs to the Dravidian language family, while the rest speaks Balochi and tend ...

Punjabis The Punjabis ( Punjabi: ; ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ; romanised as Panjābīs), are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group associated with the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of eastern Pakistan and northwestern India. The ...

, & to a lesser extent Muhajir people are also present. Jamshoro is predominantly

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

with a small

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

minority.

References

External links

In Jamshoro, hopes and unfufilled promises for people

Introduction to Jamshoro – University of Sindh Jamshoro
{{Authority control Jamshoro District Cities in Pakistan Education City