Dera Ghazi Khan


Dera Ghazi Khan

(dā`rə gä`zē khän), town (1981 pop. 102,007), central Pakistan, on the Indus canal. It is an administrative center in a wheat and millet area. Manufactures include textiles, processed foods, and rope. The town was founded in the late 15th cent. A college affiliated with Punjab Univ. is there.

Dera Ghazi Khan

 

a city in Pakistan on the right bank of the Indus River in North-West Frontier Province. Population, 46,100 (1961).

Dera Ghazi Khan is a transportation point on a main highway, and it is a trading center (cereals, cotton, indigo, and clothing). The city has cotton-spinning and rice-milling enterprises, and flour and butter are produced there. A number of handicrafts have survived in the city, including the manufacture of silk garments, ivory carvings, and woolens. Dera Ghazi Khan is the site of a college of the arts. The city is subject to periodic floods.