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Punjab

State

Punjab is a state in northwestern India, part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, bordered by Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir, and by the identically named Pakistani province of Punjab to its west. Chandigarh serves as a shared capital city for Punjab and neighboring Haryana. With more than 27 million people it is India's sixteenth largest state by population, and Punjabi, written in the Gurmukhi script, is its official and majority language, with Sikhs and Hindus forming the two largest religious communities.

Facts
Population
27,743,338 1
Population Estimate Year
2011 1
Area (sq km)
50,362 1
Admission Year
1966 1
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Adjacent To

Haryana, States or Territories
Rajasthan, States or Territories

Associated With

Amritsar, Cities
Source Wikipedia: Amritsar
India, Countries
Ludhiana, Cities
Source Ludhiana (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Punjab India (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Infobox: area_total_km2
    50362
  • Demographics, 2011 census
    According to the provisional results of the 2011 national census, Punjab has a population of 27,743,338, making it the 16th-most populous state in India.
  • Lead section
    The state covers an area of 50,362 square kilometres (19,445 square miles), which is 1.53% of India's total geographical area, making it the 19th-largest Indian state by area out of 28 Indian states (20th largest, if Union Territories are considered).
  • Infobox: formation_date4
    26 January 1950 1 November 1966 (reorganisation)
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Wikidata: Punjab
Wikidata Q22424, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source
Wikipedia: Amritsar
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Amritsar, Lead sentence, state-of-Punjab clause, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amritsar
Quote, Associated With: Amritsar, Lead sentence, state-of-Punjab clause, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amritsar
is the second-largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana
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Ludhiana (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Ludhiana, Infobox subdivision_name1 field, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludhiana
Quote, Associated With: Ludhiana, Infobox subdivision_name1 field, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludhiana
subdivision_name1 = Punjab
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