Districts of Punjab (Pakistan)
Sr. No District Headquarters Area ( km² ) Population ( 1998 ) Population ( 2017 ) Density ( people/km² )
1 Attock Attock 6,858 1,274,935 1,883,556 186
2 Bahawalnagar Bahawalnagar 8,878 2,061,447 2,981,919 232
3 Bahawalpur Bahawalpur 24,830 2,433,091 3,668,106 98
4 Bhakkar Bhakkar 8,153 1,051,456 1,650,518 129
5 Chakwal Chakwal 6,524 1,083,725 1,495,982 166
6 Chiniot Chiniot 2,643 965,124 1,369,740
7 Dera Ghazi Khan Dera Ghazi Khan 11,922 2,643,118 2,872,201 238
8 Faisalabad Faisalabad 5,856 5,429,547 7,873,910 927
9 Gujranwala Gujranwala 3,622 3,400,940 5,014,196 939
10 Gujrat Gujrat 3,192 2,748,008 4,756,110 642
11 Hafizabad Hafizabad 2,367 832,980 1,156,957 352
12 Jhang Jhang 8,809 2,834,546 2,743,416 322
13 Jhelum Jhelum 3,587 936,957 1,222,633 261
14 Kasur Kasur 4,796 1,466,000 3,454,996 595
15 Khanewal Khanewal 4,349 2,068,490 2,921,986 476
16 Khushab Jauharabad 6,511 1,205,460 1,281,299 185
17 Lahore Lahore 1,772 6,318,745 11,126,285 3,566
18 Layyah Layyah 6,291 1,120,951 1,824,230 178
19 Lodhran Lodhran 2,778 1,171,800 1,700,620 422
20 Mandi Bahauddin Mandi Bahauddin 2,673 1,160,552 1,593,292 434
List of districts
Punjab is one of the four provinces of Pakistan.It is the largest province by population and second largest by land. There are 36 districts in the province. The provincial capital and largest city is Lahore which was the historical capital of the wider Punjab region. Largest cities in Punjab include Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Attock, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Multan, Sialkot, Bahawalpur, Gujrat, Sheikhupura, Jhelum and Sahiwal.