Farooqabad
فارُوق آباد | |
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 Farooqabad Railway Station built during the British Rule around nineteenth century. | |
  Farooqabad  Farooqabad | |
| Coordinates: 31°44′39″N 73°50′00″E / 31.74430°N 73.83342°E | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Punjab |
| District | Sheikhupura |
| Government | |
| • MNA | Khurram Munawar Manj (Sunni Ittehad Council) |
| Elevation | 210 m (690 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 109,717 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Calling code | 056 |
Farooqabad (Urdu: فارُوق آباد), was known as Chuhar Kana until 1983, is a city in Sheikhupura District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is situated along the twin canals (Qadirabad Balloki Link Canal and Upper Gogera Branch Canal) about 55 km west of Lahore on Sargodha Road along Lahore-Islamabad M-2 Motorway and on Lahore-Faisalabad-Karachi Main Railway Line.[2]
The city was founded by Sardar Chuhar Singh.[3]
- ^ Citypopulation.de Population of Farooqabad
- ^ Farooqabad on GoogleMaps, Retrieved 13 July 2017
- ^ Miraj, Muhammad Hassan (February 18, 2013). "Jahandad and Warburton". DAWN.COM.