Rajanpur

Rajanpur
راجن پور‬
City
Gateway of Rajanpur's Harand Fort
Rajanpur
Location in Pakistan
Rajanpur
Rajanpur (Pakistan)
Coordinates: 29°6′15″N 70°19′29″E / 29.10417°N 70.32472°E / 29.10417; 70.32472Coordinates: 29°6′15″N 70°19′29″E / 29.10417°N 70.32472°E / 29.10417; 70.32472
Country Pakistan
Province Punjab
District Rajanpur District
Foundation of Old City 1770s
Government[1]
 • Type Municipal Committee
 • Chairman Kunawar Kamal Akhtar
 • Vice Chairman Ch. Naeem Saqib Advocate
 • Chief Officer Syed Masood-ur-Rauf Ahmad Rizvi Qazi
 • Municipal Officer (Finance) Muhammad Akram Bari
 • Computer Section Abdullah Hussain Dreshak
Time zone UTC+5 (PST)
 • Summer (DST) +6
Postal code 33500
Dialling code 604[2]
Acronym RJP
Demonym Rajanpuri
Highways N-55
Website http://www.mcrajanpur.lgpunjab.org.pk/

Rajanpur (Urdu: راجن پُور‬‎), is a city and the headquarters of Rajanpur District in the far southwestern part of Punjab, Pakistan. The district lies entirely west of the Indus River. it is a narrow, 32 kilometres (20 mi) to 64 kilometres (40 mi) wide strip of land sandwiched between the Indus River on the east and the Sulaiman Mountains on the west. It had a population of 42,986 in 1998.[3]

Rajanpur was founded in 1732-33 by Makhdoom Sheikh Rajan Shah,[4][5] from whom the city's name derives.[6] Sheikh Rajan established Rajanpur in an area that he had captured from Nahar tribesmen.[4] The settlement remained a largely unimportant village until flooding in 1862 severely damaged the nearby district headquarters at Mithankot - leading to the transfer of government offices to Rajanpur.[4] A small dispensary clinic was established in Rajanpur that same year.[7] Rajanpur was then constituted as a municipality in 1873.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Municipal Committee Rajanpur". Local Government Punjab. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  2. ↑ "National Dialing Codes". Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Ranjapur, Pakistan" citypopulation.de
  4. 1 2 3 4 Imperial gazetteer of India: provincial series. Supt. of Govt. Print. 1908.
  5. ↑ Rashid, Haroon (2008). History of the Pathans: The Ghurghushti, Beitani and Matti tribes of Pathans. Haroon Rashid.
  6. ↑ (Firm), Cosmo Publications (2000). The Pakistan gazetteer. Cosmo Publications. ISBN 9788170208822.
  7. ↑ Punjab District Gazetteers: Ibbetson series, 1883-1884]. Compiled and published under the authority of the Punjab government. 1883.
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