Kotri

Kotri is a city in the Jamshoro District of Sindh province, Pakistan, and the headquarters of Kotri Taluka. It lies on the right bank of the Indus River and is the 118th most populous city in Pakistan. The name is the diminutive of the Sindhi word kot, meaning fort, so it translates as little fort. The 1998 census counted 62,085 people and the 2023 census counted 106,615. The local economy is built around textile production and fishing. The city sits beside Jamshoro, where Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, the University of Sindh and Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences are located. The Sindhi-language drama writer and novelist Ali Muhammad, known as Ali Baba, was born here.