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Faisalabad

City in Punjab province, Pakistan, 120 km/75 mi west of Lahore; population (1998) 2,008,900, (2007 calc) 2,658,200. It is an important road and railway junction, and the commercial centre for a large area where major crops of cotton, wheat, vegetables, and fruit are produced. Industries in the city include textiles and textile machinery, flour milling, soap and chemical manufacture, railway repair, dyes, and agricultural equipment.

Faisalabad is the home of the University of Agriculture, founded in 1909 as Punjab Agricultural College. The city was founded in 1892 by the British, and laid out in the shape of a Union Jack.
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