Dera Ghazi Khan

Dera Ghazi Khan, often abbreviated D. G. Khan, is a city in the southwestern part of Punjab, Pakistan, the 16th most populous in Punjab and the 23rd in Pakistan as of 2023. It lies west of the Indus River in the region of Derajat and serves as the headquarters of its eponymous district and division. Shah Husein, the second Langah Sultan of Multan, invited Baloch tribes to settle the region at the end of the 15th century, and the city was part of the Multan province of the Mughal Empire between the 16th and 18th centuries before the Sikh army of Ranjit Singh took it in 1819. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947 many Hindus and Sikhs migrated to India, some founding Derawal Nagar in Delhi. The climate of the city is semi arid.