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● Capital: ● Number of District : 22 ● Chief Minister: Captain Amarinder Singh ● Governor: V P Singh Badnore ● High court: Punjab and High Court (Chandigarh) ● Chief Justice: Ravi Shankar Jha ● Members of the Legislative Assembly: 117 ● Lok Sabha Seats : 13 ● Rajya Sabha Seats : 7 Boundaries

● It is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast, to the southwest, and the Pakistani province of Punjab to the west. Image Source: Maps of India State Symbols

● State Animal: Blackbuck ● State Bird: Baaz ● State Flower: Gladiolus ● State Tree: Sheesham

● The five tributary rivers of the Indus River from which the region took its name are Sutlej, Ravi, Beas, Chenab and Jhelum Rivers; Sutlej, Ravi and Beas are part of the Indian Punjab. ● In 1947, the Punjab Province of British India was divided along religious lines into West Punjab and East Punjab. The western part was assimilated into Pakistan while the east became part of India. ● Sikhism originated in the Punjab Region during the 15th century. ● Approximately 75% of the total Sikh population of the world lives in Punjab. Geography

● Most of the Punjab lies in a fertile, alluvial plain with many rivers and an extensive irrigation canal system. ● It is the 20th-largest Indian state by area. ● With 27,704,236 inhabitants at the 2011 census, Punjab is the 16th-largest state by population The current government was elected in the 2017 Assembly elections as Congress won 77 out of 117 Assembly seats and Amarinder Singh is the current Chief Minister.

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● Ranjit Sagar Dam: It is also known as the Thein Dam, and is part of a hydroelectric project constructed by the Government of Punjab Punjab Irrigation Department on the Ravi River on the Border of two states of India Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab. General Facts

● The region was originally called Sapta Sindhu, the Vedic land of the seven rivers flowing into the sea. ● The region is ideal for wheat-growing. Rice, sugar cane, fruits and vegetables are also grown. ● Indian Punjab is called the "Granary of India" or "India's bread-basket". ● Punjab has six civil airports including two international airports: International Airport and Chandigarh International Airport. UNESCO World Heritage Sites The Architectural Work Of Le Corbusier (Chandigarh) GI Tags of Punjab

Phulkari (Also of Haryana and Haryana) Festivals & Fairs of Punjab

Lohri Festivals & Fairs of Punjab

Teeyan festival Jor Mela: Annual three-day Shaheedi Jor Mela is held at Fatehgarh Sahib Gurdwara Dances of Punjab

Sammi Dhamal Famous personalities of Punjab

● Har Gobind Khorana, Medicine Nobel prize laureate. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids. ● Kiran Bedi, first woman IPS officer ● Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space 10 Sikh Gurus

1. Guru Nanak (1469-1539) - Guru Nanak was born at Talwandi (now called Nankana Sahib) in Punjab. He founded the Sikh religion. 2. Guru Angad (1539-1552) - He invented the Gurumukhi script. 3. Guru Amar Das (1552-1574) - He strengthened the tradition of the free kitchen, Guru Ka Langar (started by Guru Nanak. He completely abolished the custom of Sati amongst the Sikhs. 4. Guru Ram Das (1574-1581) - Guru Ram Das was the fourth of the ten Sikh Gurus. Emperor Akbar donated a plot of land to Guru Ram Das on which Golden Temple was later constructed. He founded the city of Amritsar. 5. Guru Arjun Dev (1581-1606) - He composed Adigranth (Guru Granth Sahib). Guru Arjun Dev was tortured to death by Mughal Emperor Jahangir in 1606. 6. Guru Hargovind (1606-1645) - He built the Akal Takht. 7. Guru Har Rai (1645-1661) - Dara Shikoh (the eldest son of emperor Shah Jahan) came to Guru Har Rai asking for help in the war of succession launched by his half-brother Aurangzeb.

8. Guru Har Kishan (1661-1664) - Har Kishan was only five years old when he succeeded his father, Guru Har Rai, as Guru. Thus, he was the youngest guru in Sikh history.

9. Guru Teg Bahadur (1664-1675) - Aurangzeb executed Guru Teg Bahadur when he refused to convert into Islam.

10. Guru Gobind Singh (1675-1708) - Guru Goving Singh was the last of the ten Sikh Gurus. He was born in Patna, Bihar. He founded the Khalsa Pantha. Kartarpur Corridor

The Kartarpur Corridor is an under-construction border corridor between the neighbouring nations of India and Pakistan, connecting the Sikh shrines of Dera Baba Nanak Sahib (located in Punjab, India) and Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur (in Punjab, Pakistan).