Badin

Badin is a city in the Sindh province of Pakistan and the main city and capital of Badin District. It lies east of the Indus River and is often called the Sugar State because of its sugar production. Badin District was established in 1975 and is made up of five talukas: Badin, Matli, Shaheed Fazal Rahu, Talhar and Tando Bago. The district borders Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Tharparkar and Thatta districts and, in the south, the Kutch district of India, which forms the international boundary. The article places the present site of the town between the Ghari Mandhar and Kaziah canals and says it was founded around 1750 by a Hindu named Sawalo, after the older town on the western bank of the Ghari Mandhar canal was destroyed during a raid. Badin was first incorporated as a municipality in 1857. The 2023 census counted 117,455 people in the city.