Malikwal تحصیل ملکوال | |
|---|---|
| Country |  |
| Province |  |
| District | Mandi Bahauddin |
| Population | |
| • Tehsil | 371,869 |
| • Urban | 43,421 |
| • Rural | 328,448 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Number of Union Councils | 17 |
Malikwal (Urdu : تحصیل ملکوال) is a tehsil located in Mandi Bahauddin District, Punjab, Pakistan. The city of Malikwal is the headquarters of the tehsil, which is administratively subdivided into 17 Union Councils. [2]
A tehsil is an administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is an area of land with a city or town that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. The terms in India have replaced earlier geographical terms, such as pargana, pergunnah and thannah, used under Delhi Sultanate and the British Raj.
Mandi Bahauddin, also spelled Mandi Baha ud Din, is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is bordered on the northwest by the Jhelum River, on the southeast by the Chenab River, and on the southwest by the Sargodha District. The district has an area of 2,673 square kilometres (1,032 sq mi). Mandi district currently has 1.5 million population.
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the world’s sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212,742,631 people. In area, it is the 33rd-largest country, spanning 881,913 square kilometres. Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China in the far northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.
