Gujranwala

Gujranwala, chief town of Gujranwala district, in the Punjab, 40 miles N. of Lahore, on the Northern Punjab State Railway, lies in a flat plain, is notorious for its bad sanitary condition, and has some local trade and petty manufactures. It was for a time the capital of the Sikh power, and Ranjit Singh was born here. Pop. 23,000.—The district has an area of 3017 sq. m., and a pop. of 690,169, three-fourths Mohammedans.