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Punjab

The Punjab is a populous and prosperous area of the . The name comes from the Persian words panj and āb, thus the five rivers. Four of them – Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and Sutlej – are tributaries of the mighty Indus and the fifth, the Beas, is a tributary of the Sutlej.
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  • Type: region
  • Description: geographic region divided between Pakistan and India
  • Also known as: “Land of Five Rivers” and “Punjab region”

Punjab

Latitude of center
31.905° or 31° 54′ 18″ north
Longitude of center
73.766° or 73° 45′ 58″ east
Wiki­data ID
Q169132
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Punjab” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Punjab”
  • Arabic: “بنجاب”
  • Armenian: “Փանջաբ”
  • Armenian: “Փենջաբ”
  • Asturian: “Punyab”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pəncab regionu”
  • Bashkir: “Пәнжәб”
  • Basque: “Punjab”
  • Belarusian: “Панджаб”
  • Belarusian: “Пенджаб”
  • Belarusian: “Пэнджаб”
  • Bengali: “পাঞ্জাব”
  • Breton: “Panjab”
  • Breton: “Pundjab”
  • Bulgarian: “Панджаб”
  • Bulgarian: “Пенджаб”
  • Bulgarian: “Петоречие”
  • Bulgarian: “Пунджаб”
  • Burmese: “ပန်ဂျပ်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Panjab”
  • Catalan: “Panyab”
  • Catalan: “Penjab”
  • Catalan: “Punjab”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی پەنجاب”
  • Chinese: “Punjab”
  • Chinese: “旁遮普”
  • Chinese: “旁遮普地区”
  • Chinese: “旁遮普地區”
  • Chinese: “旁遮普省 (英属印度)”
  • Chinese: “旁遮普省 (英屬印度)”
  • Chinese: “旁遮普省”
  • Chinese: “頻渣別”
  • Croatian: “Pandžab”
  • Croatian: “Pendžab”
  • Czech: “Pandžáb”
  • Czech: “Paňdžáb”
  • Czech: “Panžáb”
  • Czech: “Pětiříčí”
  • Danish: “Punjab region”
  • Dutch: “Punjab”
  • Esperanto: “Panĝabio”
  • Esperanto: “Panĝabo”
  • Estonian: “Pandžab”
  • Estonian: “Punjab”
  • Finnish: “Punjab”
  • French: “Pandjab”
  • French: “Panjab”
  • French: “Panjâb”
  • French: “Pendjab”
  • French: “Penjab”
  • French: “Pundjab”
  • French: “Punjab”
  • Galician: “Panjab”
  • Galician: “Panxab”
  • German: “Fünfstromland”
  • German: “Pandjab”
  • German: “Pandschab”
  • German: “Pandschāb”
  • German: “Panjab”
  • German: “Panjāb”
  • German: “Punjab”
  • Greek: “Παντζάμπ”
  • Greek: “Πάντζαμπ”
  • Greek: “Πενταποταμία”
  • Gujarati: “પંજાબ પ્રદેશ”
  • Gujarati: “પંજાબ”
  • Hebrew: “חבל פנג’אב”
  • Hebrew: “פנג’אב”
  • Hindi: “पंजाब क्षेत्र”
  • Hindi: “पंजाब”
  • Hungarian: “Pandzsáb régió”
  • Icelandic: “Punjab”
  • Icelandic: “Púnjab”
  • Ido: “Punjab”
  • Indonesian: “Punjab”
  • Indonesian: “wilayah Punjab”
  • Interlingua: “Punjab”
  • Irish: “An Phuinseáib”
  • Irish: “Puinseáb”
  • Irish: “Punjab”
  • Italian: “Punjab”
  • Japanese: “パンジャーブ”
  • Japanese: “パンジャーブ地方”
  • Japanese: “パンジャーブ州”
  • Japanese: “バンジャビ”
  • Japanese: “パンジャブ”
  • Japanese: “パンジャブ地方”
  • Japanese: “パンジャブ州”
  • Kannada: “ಪಂಜಾಬ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kashmiri: “پَنٛجاب”
  • Kinaray-A: “Pëndzab”
  • Kirghiz: “Пенжаб”
  • Komering: “Punjab”
  • Korean: “판쟙”
  • Korean: “펀자브 지방”
  • Korean: “펀자브 지역”
  • Korean: “펀자브”
  • Korean: “펀잡”
  • Latin: “Pengabum”
  • Latvian: “Pendžāba”
  • Latvian: “Pendžābas reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Pandžabas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pandžabis”
  • Lithuanian: “Panžebas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pendžabas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Punjab”
  • Malay: “Rantau Punjab”
  • Malayalam: “Punjab Region”
  • Malayalam: “Punjab”
  • Malayalam: “പഞ്ചാബ് പ്രദേശം”
  • Malayalam: “പഞ്ചാബ്”
  • Marathi: “पंजाब प्रदेश”
  • Mazanderani: “پنجاب”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Punjab”
  • Mongolian: “Панжаб”
  • Nepali: “पञ्जाब”
  • Newari: “पञ्जाब”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pandjab”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Panjab”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Punjab”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pandjab”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Panjab”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Punjab”
  • Norwegian: “Punjab”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Panjab”
  • Ossetian: “Пенджаб”
  • Pampanga: “Pandzab”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੰਜ ਦਰਿਆਵਾਂ ਦੀ ਧਰਤੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੰਜਾਬ ਖੇਤਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੰਜਾਬ”
  • Persian: “پنجاب”
  • Persian: “منطقه پنجاب”
  • Polish: “Pandżab”
  • Polish: “Pendżab”
  • Polish: “Pięciorzecze”
  • Portuguese: “Panjaba”
  • Portuguese: “Panjabe”
  • Portuguese: “Pendjab”
  • Portuguese: “Pendjabe”
  • Portuguese: “Penjabe”
  • Portuguese: “Punjab (região)”
  • Portuguese: “Punjab”
  • Portuguese: “Punjabe”
  • Portuguese: “Punjabis”
  • Russian: “Западный Пенджаб”
  • Russian: “Панджаб”
  • Russian: “Пенджаб”
  • Russian: “Пенджабская равнина”
  • Russian: “Пятиречие”
  • Russian: “Пятиречье”
  • Sanskrit: “पंजाब्”
  • Sanskrit: “पञ्जाब्”
  • Saraiki: “پنجاب”
  • Scots: “Punjab”
  • Serbian: “Pandžab”
  • Serbian: “Панџаб”
  • Serbian: “Пенџаб”
  • Serbian: “Пунџаб”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pandžab”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pendžab”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Punjab region”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Punjab”
  • Sindhi: “پنجاب جو خطو”
  • Sindhi: “پنجاب”
  • Sinhala: “පන්ජාබ් කලාපය”
  • Slovak: “Pandžáb”
  • Slovenian: “Pandžab”
  • Spanish: “Panjab”
  • Spanish: “Penjab”
  • Spanish: “Punjab”
  • Spanish: “Punyab”
  • Spanish: “Región del Panyab”
  • Swahili: “Punjab”
  • Swedish: “Punjab”
  • Tagalog: “Panyāb”
  • Tagalog: “Punjab”
  • Tamil: “பஞ்சாப் பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Пәнҗаб”
  • Telugu: “పంజాబ్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “ภูมิภาคปัญจาบ”
  • Turkish: “Pencap”
  • Uighur: “پەنجاب”
  • Ukrainian: “Пенджаб”
  • Urdu: “پنجاب”
  • Urdu: “خطۂ پنجاب”
  • Uzbek: “Panjob”
  • Venetian: “Punjab”
  • Vietnamese: “Punjab”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng Punjab”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Punjab”
  • Welsh: “Punjab”
  • Western Panjabi: “پنجاب”
  • Wu Chinese: “旁遮普地区”
  • Yue Chinese: “旁遮普”
  • “ma Pansapi”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Punjab”. Photo: Jugni, CC BY 3.0.