Hafizabad District
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The Hafizabad district (Urdu: حافظ آباد) is one of the districts in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. It is situated in the central punjab and is pretty much famous in rice industry. The rice of this territory has special image in the rice industry. This was made a district in 1991, before this it was working as Tehseel. Hafizabad is said to be "Sheraz-e-Hind" as many a poets and scholars of international repute were born here. Hafizabad consists of two tehsils: Hafizabad and Pindi Bhattian.[1] It has two constituency of National Assembly and five constituencies for provincial assembly. Famous industry is cotton power looms. Basically it is an agricultural city.
After construction of interchange near buj dara Hafizabad is now just 22 kilometer away from Motorway (M2).
The district had a population of 832,980 of which 26.73% were urban in 1998. [2]
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