Toba Tek Singh District
district of Punjab, Pakistan
Toba Tek Singh District (Punjabi: ضلع ٹوبھا ٹیک سنگھ, Urdu: ضلع ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ), is a district of Faisalabad division in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located between 30°33' to 31°2' Degree north latitudes and 72°08' to 72°48' Degree longitudes. It became a separate district in 1982.
Etymology
The city and district is named after a sikh figure Tek Singh. Legend has it that Tek Singh, a kind-hearted man served water and provided shelter to the worn out and thirsty travelers passing by a small pond (Toba in Punjabi) which eventually was called Toba Tek Singh, and the surrounding settlement acquired the same name. There is also a park here named after Singh.
History
British Raj
Toba Tek Singh was developed by the British toward the end of the 19th Century when a canal system was built. People from all over the Punjab (from the current Pakistani and Indian Punjab) moved there as farmlands were allotted to them. Most of the people who migrated there belonged to Lahore, Jalandhar ,Hoshiarpur and Sialkot districts.
The Imperial Gazetteer of India described the tehsil of Toba Tek Singh as follows:
Tehsil of the new Lyallpur District, Punjab, lying between 30°50' and 31°23' N. and 72° 20' and 72°54' E., with an area of 865 square miles (2,240 km2).
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Toba Tek Singh District” as district of Punjab, Pakistan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as district of Punjab, Pakistan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
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 Apr 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q45206. VIAF identifies the subject as 248343951. The Library of Congress control number is n2013029569. Authority coordinates are 30.967, 72.483. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982.
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