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Sialkot| City in Punjab province, Pakistan, 120 km/75 mi north of Lahore; population (1998) 421,500, (2007 calc) 491,700. The city is an important centre of commerce, with good rail communications. Industries include the manufacture of surgical and sports goods, metal ware, carpets, textiles, bicycles, and leather goods. Other industries include flour and sugar milling, and cotton textile manufacture. |
| Sialkot is the home of several colleges affiliated to the University of the Punjab. The city was also the birthplace of the influential philosopher and poet Muhammad Iqbāl. |
| Sialkot has been identified with the Indo-Greek city of Sagala and is the site of a 12th-century fort and the mausoleum of the 16th-century Sikh apostle, Nanak. |
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