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Rawalpindi District

Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi is a city of 2.1 million people in . It is a bustling town strategically located between the and . It has a strong colonial influence and possesses a large military cantonment with the headquarters of the Pakistan Army.
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  • Type: City with 2,100,000 residents
  • Description: city in Punjab, Pakistan
  • Also known as: “Pindi”, “Ralalpindi”, and “Rawal Pindi”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rawalpindi Railway Station and F. G. Sir Syed College.

Railway station
Photo: Miiqbal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located in Saddar area of Rawalpindi, Punjab, . It is one of several major stops on the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line.

College
is a boys' college in Rawalpindi, . It includes a high school and undergraduate classes. It is affiliated with Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, and with the University of the Punjab.

Pitch
, also known as the Army Sports Ground, is a multi-use in Rawalpindi, . It is used mostly for cricket matches. The stadium can accommodate 15,000 people and hosted its first and only international Test match in 1965.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rawalpindi Cantonment and Mohanpura.

Town
is a large military town located in Rawalpindi, Punjab province, . The headquarters of the Pakistan Army, which are known as the General Headquarters, are located in the nearby Chaklala Cantonment.

Suburb
Mohan Pura is a neighborhood and a Union Council of Rawalpindi City of in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. Adjacent to the neighborhoods of Ibrahim Nagar, Nanak Pura, and Arjun NagIt's Union Council number 36 of Rawalpindi.

Rawalpindi

Latitude
33.5915° or 33° 35′ 30″ north
Longitude
73.0537° or 73° 3′ 13″ east
Population
2,100,000
Elevation
501 metres (1,644 feet)
IATA airport code
RWP
United Nations Location Code
PK RWP
Open location code
8J5MH3R3+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 58744442
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1166993
Wiki­data ID
Q93230
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Rawalpindi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rawalpindi”
  • Arabic: “راولبند”
  • Arabic: “راولبندي”
  • Armenian: “Ռավալպինդի”
  • Asturian: “Rawalpindi”
  • Awadhi: “रावलपिंडी”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ravalpindi”
  • Basque: “Rawalpindi”
  • Belarusian: “Равалпіндзі”
  • Belarusian: “Равальпіндзі”
  • Bengali: “راولپنڈی”
  • Bengali: “রাওয়ালপিন্ডি”
  • Bosnian: “Rawalpindi”
  • Breton: “Rawalpindi”
  • Bulgarian: “Равалпинди”
  • Catalan: “Rawalpindi”
  • Catalan: “Rāwalpindi”
  • Cebuano: “Rawalpindi”
  • Chechen: “Равалпинди”
  • Chinese: “拉瓦品地”
  • Chinese: “拉瓦尔品第”
  • Chinese: “拉瓦爾品第”
  • Chinese: “拉華爾品第”
  • Croatian: “Ravalpindi”
  • Czech: “Rávalpindí”
  • Danish: “Rawalpindi”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ravalpindi”
  • Dutch: “Rawalpindi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “راولبندى”
  • Esperanto: “Ravalpindio”
  • Esperanto: “Ravalpindo”
  • Esperanto: “Rawalpindi”
  • Estonian: “Rawalpindi”
  • Estonian: “Rāwalpindi”
  • Finnish: “Rawalpindi”
  • French: “Rawalpindi”
  • French: “Râwalpindî”
  • French: “Rāwalpindi”
  • Galician: “Rawalpindi”
  • Georgian: “რავალპინდი”
  • German: “Pindi”
  • German: “Rawalpindi”
  • Greek: “Ραβαλπίντι”
  • Gujarati: “રાવલપિંડી”
  • Hausa: “Pindi”
  • Hausa: “Rawal Pindi”
  • Hausa: “Rawalpindi”
  • Hebrew: “רוואלפינדי”
  • Hebrew: “רוולפינדי”
  • Hindi: “रावलपिंडी ज़िले”
  • Hindi: “रावलपिंडी”
  • Hindi: “रावलपिण्डी”
  • Hungarian: “Ravalpindi”
  • Ido: “Rawalpindi”
  • Igbo: “Rawalpindi”
  • Indonesian: “Rawalpindi”
  • Irish: “Rawalpindi”
  • Italian: “Fatehpur Baori”
  • Italian: “Rawalpindi”
  • Japanese: “ラーワルピンディー”
  • Japanese: “ラワルピンジー”
  • Japanese: “ラワルピンディ”
  • Japanese: “ラワルピンディー”
  • Kalaallisut: “Rawalpindi”
  • Kannada: “ರಾವಲ್ಪಿಂಡಿ”
  • Kashmiri: “راوَلپِنڈی”
  • Kirghiz: “Равалпинди”
  • Korean: “라왈핀디”
  • Kurdish: “Rawalpindi”
  • Kurdish: “Rawalpindî”
  • Kurdish: “راوالپندی”
  • Latin: “Rawalpindi”
  • Latvian: “Ravalpindi”
  • Latvian: “Rāvalpindi”
  • Lingala: “Rawalpindi”
  • Lithuanian: “Ravalpindis”
  • Malay: “Rawalpindi”
  • Malayalam: “Rawalpindi”
  • Malayalam: “റാവൽപിണ്ടി”
  • Malayalam: “റാവൽ‌പിണ്ടി”
  • Maori: “Rawalpindi”
  • Marathi: “रावलपिंडी”
  • Marathi: “रावळपिंडी”
  • Mazanderani: “راولپندی”
  • Mingrelian: “რავალპინდი”
  • Mongolian: “Равалпинди”
  • Nepali: “रावलपिंडी”
  • Nepali: “रावलपिन्डी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rawalpindi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rawalpindi”
  • Norwegian: “Rawalpindi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rawalpindi”
  • Oriya: “ରାୱଲପିଣ୍ଡୀ”
  • Ossetian: “Равалпинди”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “راولپندی”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਾਵਲਪਿੰਡੀ”
  • Persian: “راولپندی”
  • Polish: “Rawalpindi”
  • Portuguese: “Raualpindi”
  • Portuguese: “Rawalpindi”
  • Pushto: “راولپنډي”
  • Romanian: “Rawalpindi”
  • Russian: “Равалпинди”
  • Russian: “Равальпинди”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱟᱣᱟᱞᱯᱤᱱᱰᱤ”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱟᱣᱟᱞᱯᱤᱸᱰᱤ”
  • Scots: “Rawalpindi”
  • Serbian: “Ravalpindi”
  • Serbian: “Rawalpindi”
  • Serbian: “Равалпинди”
  • Sicilian: “Rawalpindi”
  • Silesian: “Rawalpindi”
  • Sindhi: “راولپنڊي”
  • Sinhala: “රාවල්පින්ඩි”
  • Slovenian: “Ravalpindi”
  • Slovenian: “Rawalpindi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “راولپندی”
  • Spanish: “Ra walpindi”
  • Spanish: “Ra-walpindi”
  • Spanish: “Rawalpindi”
  • Spanish: “Rāwalpindi”
  • Swedish: “Rawalpindi”
  • Tajik: “Равалпинди”
  • Talysh: “Ravalpindi”
  • Tamil: “இராவல்பிண்டி”
  • Tamil: “ராவல்பிண்டி”
  • Telugu: “రావల్పిండి”
  • Thai: “ราวัลปินดี”
  • Thai: “ราวัลพินดี”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Rawalpindi”
  • Turkish: “Ravalpindi”
  • Turkish: “Rawalpindi”
  • Uighur: “Rawalpindi”
  • Uighur: “راۋالپىندى”
  • Ukrainian: “Равалпінді”
  • Urdu: “Rawalpindi”
  • Urdu: “پنڈی”
  • Urdu: “راولپنڈی”
  • Uzbek: “Ravalpindi”
  • Venetian: “Rawalpindi”
  • Vietnamese: “Rawalpindi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rawalpindi”
  • Welsh: “Rawalpindi”
  • Western Panjabi: “راول پنڈی”
  • Western Panjabi: “راولپنڈی شہر”
  • Western Panjabi: “راولپنڈی”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉瓦尔品第”
  • Yiddish: “ראוואלפינדי”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉華爾品第”
  • “Rawalpindi”

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