Introduction

Area 50,362 sq km Location Northwest part of India Latitude 29"30’N - 32"32’N Longitude 73"55’E - 76"50’E

Chief Ministers of Punjab The current chief minister of Punjab is Capt. Amarinder Singh. He was the CM of Punjab from 2002 to 2007 also and it is his second term as the chief minister. The last elections held in 2017 were for the 15th Punjab Vidhan Sabha or Punjab Legislative Assembly and Captain Amarinder Singh of Congress formed the government with clear majority of 77 seats in a house of 117 members

Meaning of Punjab The literal meaning of Punjab is land of five rivers. It is made of two words Punj (Five) + Aab (Water) i.e. land of five rivers. The region was named so due to the five rivers flowing through it and these five rivers are Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, Chenab, Jhelum. All these rivers are tributaries of Indus river. As of today, only two rivers Sutlej and Beas flow through Punjab state in India. Ravi flows partially in Punjab, mainly along the international boundry of India and Pakistan and then enters Pakistan.  Punjab = Punj + Aab  ਪੰਜਾਬ = ਪੰਜ + ਆਬ  Punjab used to be known as Sapat Sindhu before the arrival of Aryans in India. The word Sapat Sindhu means the land of seven rivers. These seven rivers were Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, Chenab, Jhelum, Saraswati and Sindhu. In Puranas and Mahabharata, it is named as Pancha-nada which means land of five rivers. During the rule of Mughals in India, the region was known with the name Suba-E-Lahore. Greeks referred to Punjab as Pentapotamia, which means an inland delta of five converging rivers. 

Administrative Subdivisions Punjab has a total of 22 districts that are further sub divided into Tehsil, Block and etc Amritsar Barnala Bathinda Firozpur Fazilka Fatehgarh Sahib (Sirhind-Fategarh) Faridkot Gurdaspur Hoshiarpur Jalandhar Kapurthala Pathankot Ludhiana Mansa Moga Ajitgarh Muktsar Patiala Rupnagar Sangrur Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (Nawanshahr) Tarn Taran With Chandigarh as its serving Capital, the state of Punjab has a total of 157 town and 22 districts. Some of the major cities in the state of Punjab are Moga, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Nawanshahr, Patiala, Bathinda and Ajitgarh.