Rajanpur
City in Punjab, Pakistan
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Rajanpur[a] 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.
Rajanpur
راجن پور | |
|---|---|
| District Rajanpur, Pakistan | |
Gateway of Rajanpur's Harand Fort | |
  Rajanpur  Rajanpur | |
| Coordinates: 29°6′15″N 70°19′29″E | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province | Punjab |
| Division | Dera Ghazi Khan |
| District | Rajanpur |
| Established | 1732 |
| Government | |
| • 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 |
| Population | |
• City | 137,553 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | +6 |
| Postal code | 33500 |
| Dialling code | 604[3] |
| Acronym | RJP |
| Demonym | Rajanpuri |
| Highways |  N-55 |
| Website | http://www.mcrajanpur.lgpunjab.org.pk/ |
History
Rajanpur was founded by Sheikh Rajan Shah,[4][5] the makhdum of Sitpur, in about 1732.[6] He had captured his estates from the previously ruling Nahar tribesmen (see Tahir Khan Nahar).[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]