Jaranwala

Jaranwala is a city in the Faisalabad District of Punjab, Pakistan, and the capital of Jaranwala Tehsil. It lies about 35 kilometres southeast of Faisalabad and 110 kilometres from Lahore, at an altitude given as 184 metres. The name combines the Punjabi words jaran, meaning roots, and wala, meaning place, and is tied to a banyan tree known as the Jaranwala Bohar. The present city was founded by the British government in 1908 and inaugurated in 1909, and its central landmark is the Pakistani Gate, which has carried several names since 1917 and was rebuilt in 1956, 1967 and 2009. Industry includes a maize products plant and sugar and textile mills, and its grain market is one of the busiest in Punjab. The 2023 census counted 170,872 people in the city.