Places
Villages, towns, rivers and historic sites on both sides of the 1947 border.
- 12,428 places
- 12,170 villages
- 23 districts in Indian Punjab
Advertisement
Featured places
CityAmritsarHoly city of the Sikhs, founded in 1577 by Guru Ram Das. Home of Sri Harmandir Sahib, the Golden Temple.
WetlandHarike WetlandHarike Wetland, about 4,100 hectares at the meeting of the Beas and the Sutlej, is the largest wetland in northern India and a Ramsar site since 1990. Formed by the Harike Barrage of 1952-53, it winters around 200 bird species, holds smooth-coated otters and 26 fish species, and releases water into the Ferozepur canals and the Indira Gandhi Canal.
CityMultanPakistan’s sixth-largest city (2.2M, 2023), the ‘City of Saints’, famed for Sufi shrines, blue pottery and mangoes.
CityLahoreCapital of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s empire, and of Punjab, Pakistan today.
CityOkaraDairy farm and cotton mill city of Sahiwal Division, named for the Okaan tree, capital of Okara District.
By type
By region
Districts of Punjab, India 23
Across the border and abroad
Punjab, Pakistan
Lahore, Nankana Sahib and the rest of West Punjab: places that belong to the shared story.