Bahawalpur in the context of "Punjab"

Bahawalpur District (Urdu: ضلع بہاول پور) is a district of Punjab, Pakistan, with the city of Bahawalpur as the district capital. According to the 1998 census, it had a population of 2,433,091, of which 27.01% were urban. Bahawalpur district covers 24,830 km. Approximately two-thirds of the district (16,000 km) is covered by the Cholistan Desert, which extends into the Thar Desert of Pakistan and India. The district is a major producer of cotton.

Located in the south of the Punjab province, Bahawalpur district is bordered by India to its south and southeast, Bahawalnagar to its northeast, Vehari, Lodhran and Multan to its north, Rahimyar Khan to its west, and Muzaffargarh to its northwest.

State of Bahawalpur was a state in the Punjab region of South Asia that existed as a sovereign polity from 1748 to 1833 and as a princely state, under subsidiary alliance with British India and later Dominion of Pakistan, from 1833 to 1955. It was a part of the Punjab States Agency; and covered an area of 45,911 km (17,726 sq mi) with a population of 1,341,209 in 1941. The capital of the state was the town of Bahawalpur.

The state was founded in 1748 by Nawab Bahawal Khan Abbasi. On 22 February 1833, Abbasi III entered into a subsidiary alliance with the British, by which Bahawalpur was admitted as a princely state. When British rule ended in 1947 and British Raj was partitioned into India and Pakistan, Bahawalpur joined the Dominion of Pakistan. Bahawalpur remained an autonomous entity until 14 October 1955, when it was merged with the province of West Pakistan.

Lal Suhanra National Park is a national park in Bahawalpur district of Punjab province in Pakistan. It is one of Pakistan's largest nationals parks, and is a UNESCO declared Biosphere Reserve. Its landscape includes desert, forest and wetland ecosystems.

There are archaeological remains of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation which once flourished along the Ghaggar-Hakra River (paleo Saraswati River).