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Punjab


00:01:34 1 Etymology
00:02:28 2 Political geography
00:02:58 2.1 1947 definition
00:03:51 2.1.1 Present day maps
00:03:59 2.1.2 Major cities
00:04:16 2.2 Older 1846–1849 definition
00:06:08 2.2.1 Major cities
00:06:23 2.3 Greater Punjab
00:06:50 3 Climate
00:07:55 4 History
00:12:57 4.1 Timeline
00:17:31 5 People
00:17:39 5.1 Ethnic background
00:18:24 5.2 Languages
00:19:00 5.3 Religions
00:20:01 5.4 Punjabi festivals
00:20:15 5.5 Punjabi clothing
00:20:27 6 Economy
00:21:46 7 See also



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The Punjab ( (listen), , , ), also spelled Panjab (land of "five rivers"; Punjabi: پنجاب‬ (Shahmukhi); ਪੰਜਾਬ (Gurumukhi); Greek: Πενταποταμία, Pentapotamia), is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of eastern Pakistan and northern India. The boundaries of the region are ill-defined and focus on historical accounts.
Until the Partition of Punjab in 1947, the British Punjab Province encompassed the present-day Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, and Delhi, and the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Islamabad Capital Territory. It bordered the Balochistan and Pashtunistan regions to the west, Kashmir to the north, the Hindi Belt to the east, and Rajasthan and Sindh to the south.
The people of the Punjab today are called Punjabis, and their principal language is Punjabi. The main religions of the Punjab region are Islam, Sikhism, and Hinduism. Other religious groups are Christianity, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, and Ravidassia. The Punjab region has been inhabited by the Indus Valley Civilisation, Indo-Aryan peoples, and Indo-Scythians, and has seen numerous invasions by the Persians, Greeks, Kushans, Ghaznavids, Timurids, Mughals, Pashtuns, British, and others. Historic foreign invasions mainly targeted the most productive central region of the Punjab known as the Majha region, which is also the bedrock of Punjabi culture and traditions.