Sialkot

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Sialkot is a major industrial city in Pakistan’s Punjab province, renowned globally for its production of sports goods and surgical instruments.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Sialkot canonical 16
Sialkot District 2
Sialkot Tehsil 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf City
Industrial city
administrativeStatus City in Sialkot District
airportIATAcode SKT
airportICAOcode OPST
callingCode 052
climate Humid subtropical climate
continent Asia
coordinateLocation 32.4945°N 74.5229°E
country Pakistan
distanceToIslamabad approximately 230 km
distanceToLahore approximately 125 km
economy export-led manufacturing
exportMarket Europe
Middle East
North America
foundedBy Sial tribe (traditional attribution)
governingBody Municipal Corporation Sialkot
hasFacility Dry port
Industrial estates
Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Sialkot International Airport
hasHeritage Ancient city with pre-Islamic history
hasNotablePerson Allama Muhammad Iqbal (born in Sialkot)
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
surface form: Faiz Ahmad Faiz (educated in Sialkot)
historicalRegion Punjab
isSeatOf Sialkot self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sialkot District

Sialkot self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sialkot Tehsil
knownFor cricket equipment production
export-oriented small and medium industries
football (soccer ball) production
leather goods
musical instruments manufacturing
sports goods manufacturing
surgical instruments manufacturing
languageUsed Punjabi
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Punjab, Pakistan
locatedInTimeZone Pakistan Standard Time
locatedOn Chenab River
surface form: Chenab River (nearby)
majorReligion Islam
nearBorderWith India
officialLanguage Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
partOf Gujranwala Division
population over 600000 (city proper, approximate)
postalCode 51000
roadConnection linked to Lahore–Sialkot Motorway (M11)
sportsGoodsShare major share of world hand-stitched footballs
UTCoffset +5

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Chenab River passesNear Sialkot
Faiz Ahmed Faiz placeOfBirth Sialkot
Gujranwala locatedNear Sialkot
Sialkot isSeatOf Sialkot self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sialkot District
Sialkot isSeatOf Sialkot self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sialkot Tehsil
Faiz placeOfBirth Sialkot
subject surface form: Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Wazirabad locatedNear Sialkot
Wazirabad roadDistanceTo Sialkot
Javid Iqbal placeOfBirth Sialkot
Punjab (via Khyber Pakhtunkhwa–Punjab boundary, through its districts) hasMajorCity Sialkot
subject surface form: Punjab (Pakistan)
Narowal hasNearbyCity Sialkot
eastern Pakistan hasMajorCity Sialkot
subject surface form: Eastern Pakistan
Gujranwala Division containsAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Sialkot
this entity surface form: Sialkot District
Gujrat hasNearbyCity Sialkot
Ravi River in India and Pakistan hasMajorCityOnBank Sialkot
subject surface form: Ravi River
this entity surface form: Sialkot region