Jalandhar district (Doabi:ਜਲੰਧਰ ਜ਼ਿਲਾ), Hindi: जलंधर ज़िला Jalandhar Zilā) is one of the 22 districts in the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India. The capital is Jalandhar City. Nawanshahr district excluding the Balachaur sub-division was part of the original Jalandhar district until the mid-1990s when a separate district of Nawanshahr was created including Nawanshahr and Banga areas of Jalandhar district and Balachaur area of Hoshiarpur district.
From the time of Guru Amar Das Ji, the third Sikh Master, to Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the tenth Sikh Master, thousands of Punjabis from Jalandhar District Area converted to Sikhism.
The district has an area of 2,632 km² and a population of 1,962,700 inhabitants (2001).
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