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Budho Chak

village in Punjab, Pakistan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ5068196 ↗
Source-derived summary

Budho Chak is a village in Malka Union Council, Kharian Tehsil, Gujrat District, Punjab, Pakistan. The village population is approximately 3,000 inhabitants. 99% of the villagers belong to the Chib-Rajput tribe.

Geography

Budho Chak located at latitude 32.8526″N and longitude 73.9720″E, with altitude of 289 meters, Budho Chak is accessible via the network of roads. Its nearby towns and villages are Malka, Manglia, Malagar, Senthal, Kulak, Jhantla, Kotla Haji Shah, and Golra Hashim.

References

"Maps, Weather, and Airports for Chak Budho, Pakistan بدھو چک". www.fallingrain.com. Retrieved 25 January 2024.

Garren, William R. (1983). Gazetteer of Pakistan: Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Budho Chak” as village in Punjab, Pakistan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Budho, Chak and village can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Punjab, Pakistan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5068196. Authority coordinates are 32.853, 73.973. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2024 and 1983.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Budho Chak”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Budho Chak primary sources, Budho Chak archive and Budho research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Budho Chak”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Budho Chak” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.