Rahimyar Khan

Rahimyar Khan or Rahim Yar Khan ( Urdu: رحیم یار خان ) is a city in the southern Pakistani province of Punjab. The old name of the city, which was created by Fazal Elahi Halani as a fortress in 1750, was Naushehra.

1883 changed Nawab Sadiq Khan IV of Bahawalpur the name of the town and named it after his son Rahim Yar Khan. Today, the city is on a main railway line that leads to Sukkur and north to Bahawalpur in the south. In 1998, the city had a population of 233 537 and had an annual population growth rate of 4.04 percent. Accordingly, the city has about 330,000 inhabitants in January 2007.

The most closest river is the Indus, which is about 40 kilometers northwest of the city flows. The city's population is Muslim, 96.7 percent, followed by 1.8 per cent Hindu. Other religions, such as Christians or Sikhs are hardly represented.

District

The eponymous district is bordered to the north by Muzaffargarh, on the east by Bahawalpur, on the south by Jaisalmer ( India) and to the west by Ghotki. Its total area is approximately 11,880 km ².

The climate in Rahimyar Khan is very hot and dry in summer and cold and dry in winter. The summer season is comparatively longer than the winter season. It begins in April and lasts until the end of October. The winter lasts from November to March. In the summer there are often storms and severe weather. The Niederschlagsdurschschnitt is about 100 mm.

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