Districts of Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is one of the four provinces of Pakistan.It is the largest province by population and second largest by land. There are 36 districts in the province. The provincial capital and largest city is Lahore which was the historical capital of the wider Punjab region.Largest cities in Punjab include Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Multan, Sialkot, Bahawalpur, Gujrat, Sheikhupura, Jhelum and Sahiwal.

List of districts

Sr. No.	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	2,643,118	238
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	2,834,546	322
13	Jhelum	Jhelum	3,587	936,957	261
14	Kasur	Kasur	4,796	1,466,000	595
15	Khanewal	Khanewal	4,349	2,068,490	476
16	Khushab	Khushab	6,511	1,205,460	185
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^[1]	Nankana Sahib	2,960	1,410,000
26	Okara	Okara	3,004	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	15,960	2,321,029	557
34	Sialkot	Sialkot	3,016	1,688,823	903
35	Toba Tek Singh	Toba Tek Singh	3,252	1,621,593	499
36	Vehari	Vehari	4,364	2,090,416	479

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↑ "Nankana becomes district". Dawn.Com. 10 May 2005. Retrieved 16 February 2014.

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