Punjab
The Punjab is a populous and prosperous area of the Indian subcontinent. 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.
- Region
- Description: geographic region divided between Pakistan and India
- Also known as“Land of Five Rivers”“Punjab region”
Punjab
- Category: cultural region
- Location
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Latitude of center
31.905° or 31° 54′ 18″ north
Longitude of center
73.766° or 73° 45′ 58″ east
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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”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی پەنجاب”
- 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”
- Croatian: “Pandžab”
- Croatian: “Pendžab”
- Czech: “Pandžáb”
- Czech: “Paňdžáb”
- Czech: “Panžáb”
- Czech: “Pětiříčí”
- Danish: “Punjab region”
- Dutch: “Punjab”
- Esperanto: “Panĝabio”
- Esperanto: “Panĝabo”
- Estonian: “Pandžab”
- Finnish: “Punjab”
- French: “Pandjab”
- French: “Panjab”
- French: “Panjâb”
- French: “Pendjab”
- French: “Penjab”
- French: “Pundjab”
- 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”
- Italian: “Punjab”
- Japanese: “パンジャーブ”
- Japanese: “パンジャーブ地方”
- Japanese: “バンジャビ”
- Japanese: “パンジャブ”
- Japanese: “パンジャブ地方”
- 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: “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: “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: “पञ्चनद”
- 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: “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”
- Yue Chinese: “頻渣別”
- “ma Pansapi”
- “ma Punsapi”
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