Pathankot

Pathankot is a city and the district headquarters of the Pathankot district in Punjab, India. It is the sixth most populous city of Punjab, after Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala and Bathinda, and is governed by a municipal corporation. It lies in the northernmost part of Punjab, close to the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, and is called the Gateway to Himachal. The city takes its name from the Pathania chieftains of the Nurpur Kingdom, and from the eleventh to the sixteenth century it was the first capital of Nurpur State. Pathankot stands at an average elevation of 332 metres, and the 2011 census recorded 159,909 people in the urban agglomeration.