RAHIMYAR KHAN GPO Postal Code - Post Code RAHIMYAR KHAN GPO Pakistan

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Postal Code of RAHIMYAR KHAN GPO is: 64200

(RAHIMYAR KHAN GPO G. P. O. Punjab - Pakistan)

About RAHIMYAR KHAN GPO :


Rahimyar Khan or Rahim Yar Khan (Punjabi, Urdu: رحیم یار خان) is a famous city in the south of Punjab (Pakistan). Rahim Yar Khan is the capital city of Rahimyar Khan District as well as the tehsil of the same name. The city itself is administratively subdivided into 9 Union Councils[1] and is one of the few cities in the world that are still at their pioneering places since the formation. It has been renamed customarily amid last 5000 years, first available (on record) name was AROR or ALOR, and then it became City of Pattan, Phul Wada, Noshehra and now Rahim Yar Khan. The Area of Rahim yar Khan City is About 22 square kilometres. In 1883 Nawab Sadiq Khan-IV of Bahawalpur renamed it after his son Rahim Yar Khan. Formerly Rahimyar Khan was also one of the names of the three districts of the former princely State of Bahawalpur until 1955. Today, Rahimyar Khan lies on an important train route which runs south to Sukkur and north to Bahawalpur. According to the 1998 census, the city population was 233,537 with an annual growth rate of 4.04%. As of January 2007, it is around 330,000.


Sources:
http://www.pbase.com/hgharib/kotli_dist_ajk
http://www.pakpost.gov.pk/postcode/postcode.html

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