Punjab
Geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of eastern Pakistan and northwestern India.
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Punjab, Pakistan
One of the four provinces of Pakistan.
Forming the bulk of the transnational Punjab region between Pakistan and India, it is bounded locally by Sindh to the south, Balochistan to the west, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the northwest, the Islamabad Capital Territory to the north, and the Pakistani-administered territory of Azad Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast.
Punjabis
The Punjabis (Punjabi (Shahmukhi):, Punjabi (Gurmukhi): ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) or the Punjabi people, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group, associated with the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent presently divided between Pakistan and India.
Punjabi language
Punjabi (, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, ), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language that is natively spoken by the Punjabi people in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India.
Balochistan
Arid desert and mountainous geographic historical region in South and Western Asia.
Balochistan borders the Pashtunistan region to the north, Sindh and Punjab to the east, and Persian regions to the west.
Sikhs
Sikhs ( or ; ਸਿੱਖ, ) are people who adhere to Sikhism, a monotheistic religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of present-day Pakistan, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.
Indus River
Transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.
The northern part of the Indus Valley, with its tributaries, forms the Punjab region of South Asia, while the lower course of the river ends in a large delta in the southern Sindh province of Pakistan.
Indo-Greek Kingdom
Hellenistic-era Greek kingdom covering various parts of Afghanistan, the northwest regions of the Indian subcontinent, (virtually all of modern Pakistan), and a small part of Iran.
Menander I's capital was at Sagala in the Punjab (present-day Sialkot).
Punjabi Hindus
Indo-Aryan ethnic group who are adherents of Hinduism and identify linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Punjabis.
While Punjabi Hindus are mostly found in the Indian state of Punjab today, many have ancestry from the greater Punjab region, an area that was partitioned between India and Pakistan.
Punjabi Muslims
Punjabi Muslims are ethnic Punjabis who are adherents of Islam and are native primarily to the Punjab province of Pakistan, while many have ancestry in the entire Punjab region, split between India and Pakistan in the contemporary era.
Forming the majority of the Punjabi ethnicity in the greater Punjab region (overall in the South Asia), Punjabi Muslims speak or identify the Punjabi language (under a Perso-Arabic script known as Shahmukhi) as a mother tongue.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), – "Official name: Republic of India.";
In the Punjab, Sikhism emerged, rejecting institutionalised religion.