Arif Wala
city in Punjab, Pakistan
Ārifwāla (Punjabi and Urdu: عارفوالا) is a city and headquarters of Arif Wala Tehsil of Pakpattan District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
It is the 69th most populous city in Pakistan.
Arifwala is located to the southwest of Pakpattan.
Demographics
Population
According to 2023 census, Arifwala had a population of 157,063. The population of city in 1998 was 74,174 but according to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, the population has risen to 111,403 with a growth of about 50.19% in 19 years.
Languages
Road projects
The Provincial Development Working Party approved a scheme to rehabilitate a 17 km stretch of road from Bahawalnagar to Arifwala for Rs631.246 million in its 7th meeting. The PDWP, chaired by Abdullah Khan Sumbal, also approved seven other road schemes worth a total of Rs9 billion.
“Arif Wala” enters the record as city in Punjab, Pakistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Arif, Wala and city can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2984767. Authority coordinates are 30.292, 73.067. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023, 1998 and 2017.
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