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Bahawalpur

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Ba⋅ha⋅wal⋅pur

  [buh-hah-wuhl-poor, bah-wuhl-]
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–noun
1. a state in E Pakistan. 4,652,000; 32,443 sq. mi. (83,000 sq. km).
2. the capital of this state. 133,956.
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Ba·ha·wal·pur   (bə-hä'wəl-pŏŏr', -hä'wəl-pŏŏr')   
A region and former princely state of east-central Pakistan between the Sutlej River and the Indian border.
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Bahawalpur

city, southeastern Punjab province, Pakistan. The nawabs of Bahawalpur originally came from Sindh; they formed a princely state and assumed independence in 1802.

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