Rajanpur | |
Official Name: | District Rajanpur, Pakistan |
Settlement Type: | City |
Pushpin Map: | Punjab Pakistan#Pakistan |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Pakistan |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Punjab |
Subdivision Type2: | Division |
Subdivision Name2: | Dera Ghazi Khan |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Rajanpur |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Government Type: | Municipal Committee |
Leader Title: | Chairman |
Leader Name: | Kunawar Kamal Akhtar |
Leader Title1: | Vice Chairman |
Leader Name1: | Ch. Naeem Saqib Advocate |
Leader Title2: | Chief Officer |
Leader Name2: | Syed Masood-ur-Rauf Ahmad Rizvi Qazi |
Leader Title3: | Municipal Officer (Finance) |
Leader Name3: | Muhammad Akram Bari |
Leader Title4: | Computer Section |
Leader Name4: | Abdullah Hussain Dreshak |
Established Title: | Foundation of Old City |
Established Date: | 1770s |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2017 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 99,089 |
Total Type: | City |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | PST |
Utc Offset: | +5 |
Timezone Dst: | +6 |
Postal Code: | 33500 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code Type: | Dialling code |
Area Code: | 604[3] |
Blank Name: | Acronym |
Blank Info: | RJP |
Blank1 Info: | Rajanpuri |
Blank1 Name: | Demonym |
Blank2 Name: | Highways |
Website: | http://www.mcrajanpur.lgpunjab.org.pk/ |
Rajanpur (Panjabi; Punjabi: {{Nastaliq|راجن پُور), 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. it is a narrow, 32km (20miles) to 64km (40miles) wide strip of land sandwiched between the Indus River on the east and the Sulaiman Mountains on the west. Most of its inhabitants are Saraikis and Baloch with a smaller proportion being Punjabis.
Rajanpur by Makhdoom Sheikh Rajan Shah,[4] [5] from whom the city's name derives.[6] 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.[7] Rajanpur was then constituted as a municipality in 1873.[4]