General info

Part of:
India
Entity:
Punjab
Capital:
Chandigarh
Population:
24,289,296 (2001-03-01)
Area:
50,362 sq.km.
ISO code:
in-03
Region:
South-central Asia

India : Punjab

Administrative units

administrative units capital area (sq.km.) population
1991-03-01
census		 population
2001-03-01
census
source: Census of India 2001.
note: Government of Punjab.
Amritsar Amritsar 5,094 2,503,165 3,074,207
Bathinda Bathinda 3,382 979,566 1,181,236
Faridkot Faridkot 1,469 451,406 552,466
Fatehgarh Sahib Fatehgarh Sahib 1,180 462,693 539,751
Firozpur Firozpur 5,300 1,606,092 1,744,753
Gurdaspur Gurdaspur 3,569 1,757,808 2,096,889
Hoshiarpur Hoshiarpur 3,364 1,298,185 1,478,045
Jalandhar Jalandhar 2,634 1,647,492 1,953,508
Kapurthala Kapurthala 1,633 648,516 752,287
Ludhiana Ludhiana 3,767 2,426,883 3,030,352
Mansa Mansa 2,169 580,397 688,630
Moga Moga 2,216 626,391 886,313
Muktsar Muktsar 2,615 653,079 776,702
Nawanshahr Nawanshahr 1,266 531,253 586,637
Patiala Patiala 3,627 1,521,330 1,839,056
Rupnagar Rupnagar 2,056 902,264 1,110,000
Sangrur Sangrur 5,021 1,685,449 1,998,464
total   50,362 20,281,969 24,289,296

Main cities

name population
1991-03-01
census		 population
2001-03-01
census
Ludhiana 1,042,740 1,395,053
Amritsar 708,835 975,695
Jalandhar .. 701,223
Patiala 238,368 302,870
Bathinda 159,042 217,389
Pathankot 123,930 159,559
Hoshiarpur 122,705 148,243
Batala 86,006 126,646
Moga 108,304 124,624
Abohar 107,163 124,303
S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali) .. 123,284
Malerkotla .. 106,802
Khanna .. 103,059
Barnala .. 96,397
Phagwara .. 95,626
Fiozpur .. 95,451
Kapurthala .. 84,361
Muktsar .. 83,099
Rajpura .. 82,551
Kot Kapura .. 80,741
Sangrur .. 78,717
source: Census of India 2001.