Rajanpur ( pa, ), is a city and the headquarters of
Rajanpur District in the far southwestern part of
Punjab,
Pakistan. The district lies entirely west of the
Indus River
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. it is a narrow, to wide strip of land sandwiched between the
Indus River
The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kashmir, ...
on the east and the
Sulaiman Mountains on the west. Most of its inhabitants are
Saraikis and
Baloch
Baloch, also spelled Baloch, Beluch and in other ways, may refer to:
* Baloch people, an ethnic group of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan
* Baluch, a small itinerant community of Afghanistan
* Balouch, Azad Kashmir, a town in Pakistan
* Baloch (s ...
with a smaller proportion being
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 ...
.
History
Rajanpur by Makhdoom Sheikh Rajan Shah,
from whom the city's name derives. Sheikh Rajan established Rajanpur in an area that he had captured from Nahar tribesmen.
The settlement remained a largely unimportant village until flooding in 1862 severely damaged the nearby district headquarters at
Mithankot - leading to the transfer of government offices to Rajanpur.
A small dispensary clinic was established in Rajanpur that same year.
Rajanpur was then constituted as a municipality in 1873.
References
{{Rajanpur District
Populated places in Rajanpur District