Farooqabad
Farooqabad, which was known as Chuhar Kana until 1983, is a city in Sheikhupura District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is situated along the twin canals about 55 km west of Lahore on Sargodha Road along Lahore-Islamabad M-2 Motorway and on Lahore-Faisalabad-Karachi Main Railway Line.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: City with 77,700 residents
- Description: human settlement in Pakistan
- Also known as: “Choorkana”
Farooqabad
- Category: locality
- Location: Shekhupura District, Punjab, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.7421° or 31° 44′ 32″ northLongitude
73.8318° or 73° 49′ 54″ eastPopulation
77,700Open location code
8J3MPRRJ+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 2421644170OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityWikidata ID
Q5436153
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Farooqabad” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فاروق آباد”
- Asturian: “Farooqabad”
- Dutch: “Farooqabad”
- French: “Farooqabad”
- Hindi: “फारूकाबाद”
- Hindi: “फ़ारूक़ाबाद”
- Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਾਰੂਕਾਬਾਦ”
- Persian: “فاروقآباد، پاکستان”
- Persian: “فاروقآباد، شیخوپوره”
- Spanish: “Chuharkana”
- Urdu: “فاروق آباد”
- Western Panjabi: “فاروق آباد”
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