Jampur

Jampur is the capital city of Jampur Tehsil in Rajanpur District, in the Pakistani province of Punjab. It covers about 16.7 square kilometres and had 155,243 residents at the 2023 census. About 50 kilometres to the west rise the high, dry and barren mountains of the Sulaiman Range, while the river Indus lies to the east. The older name of the town was Jadam Pur, and the name is said to join Jam, a worn form of Jadam, a man of the Jakhar caste, with the suffix pur. Saraiki and Urdu are the most spoken languages in the city, and many residents are Urdu-speaking Muhajir families who settled after the Partition of 1947. Jampur has a tehsil headquarters hospital with 1000 beds, public schools for boys and girls and a government college for each. The land around it is fertile. This entry rests on the English Wikipedia article for the city.