Sheikhupura
Sheikhupura also known as Qila Sheikhupura, is a city and district in the Pakistani province of Punjab. Founded by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir in 1607, Sheikhupura is the 15th largest city of Pakistan by population and is the headquarters of Sheikhupura District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 473,000 residents
- Description: city in Punjab, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Kot Dayal Das” and “Qila Sheikhupura”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sheikhupura and Sheikhupura Stadium.
Sheikhupura
Railway station
Qila Sheikhupura Junction Railway Station is in Sheikhupura, Punjab, Pakistan.
Sheikhupura Stadium
Stadium
Sheikhupura Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in the city of Sheikhupura in Punjab province of Pakistan. It is currently used mostly for cricket matches.
Hiran Minar
Monument
Photo: Mhtoori, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hiran Minar is an early 17th-century Mughal-era complex in Sheikhupura, in the Pakistani province of Punjab. It was built at the site of a game reserve in honor of Mughal Emperor Jahangir's beloved antelope, Mansraj.
Sheikhupura
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Shekhupura District, Punjab, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.7143° or 31° 42′ 51″ northLongitude
73.9897° or 73° 59′ 23″ eastPopulation
473,000Elevation
210 metres (689 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
way 233592725OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Sheikhupura” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيخبورة”
- Arabic: “شيخوبورا”
- Asturian: “Sheikhupura”
- Azerbaijani: “Şeyxupur”
- Bengali: “শেইখুপুরা”
- Catalan: “Shekhupura”
- Cebuano: “Sheikhupura”
- Chinese: “謝胡布爾”
- Chinese: “谢胡布尔”
- Czech: “Šejchupura”
- Danish: “Sheikhupura”
- Dutch: “Sheikhupura”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيخوبورا”
- Esperanto: “Ŝejĥupura”
- Finnish: “Sheikhupura”
- French: “Shekhupura”
- German: “Sheikhupura”
- Greek: “Σεϊκουπούρα”
- Gujarati: “શેખુપુરા”
- Hebrew: “שייחאופורה”
- Hindi: “शेखुपुरा”
- Hindi: “शेख़ूपुरा”
- Indonesian: “Sheikhupura”
- Irish: “Sheikhupura”
- Italian: “Sheikhupura”
- Japanese: “シェーフープラ”
- Japanese: “シェイクプラ”
- Kannada: “ಶೇಖುಪುರಾ”
- Korean: “셰이쿠푸라”
- Korean: “시크후푸라”
- Latvian: “Šeikhupura”
- Lithuanian: “Šeikupura”
- Malay: “Sheikhupura”
- Marathi: “शेखूपुरा”
- Mingrelian: “შეკჰუპურა”
- Nepali: “शेइखुपुरा सहर”
- Nepali: “शेखुपुरा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sheikhupura”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sheikhupura”
- Norwegian: “Sheikhupura”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ੇਖ਼ੂਪੁਰਾ”
- Persian: “شیخوپوره، پاکستان”
- Persian: “شیخوپوره”
- Polish: “Śekhupura”
- Portuguese: “Shekhupura”
- Pushto: “شيخوپوره”
- Russian: “Шекхупура”
- Santali: “ᱥᱮᱠᱷᱩᱯᱩᱨᱟ”
- Serbian: “Шеикхупура”
- Sindhi: “شيخوپوره”
- Sinhala: “ශේයින්කුපුරා”
- Slovenian: “Sheikhupura”
- Spanish: “Kot Dayal Das”
- Spanish: “Sheikhupura”
- Swedish: “Sheikhupura”
- Tamil: “சேய்க்குப்புரா”
- Telugu: “షేఖ్ పుర”
- Thai: “เชคุปุระ”
- Thai: “เชคูปุรา”
- Turkish: “Sheikhupura”
- Ukrainian: “Шейхупура”
- Ukrainian: “Шекхупупа”
- Ukrainian: “Шекхупура”
- Urdu: “شیخوپورہ”
- Venetian: “Sheikhupura”
- Vietnamese: “Sheikhupura”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sheikhu Pura”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sheikhupura”
- Western Panjabi: “شیخوپورا”
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