Jacobabad
Jacobabad, () is a city in Sindh, Pakistan, serving as both the capital city of Jacobabad District and the administrative centre of Jacobabad Taluka, an administrative subdivision of the district. The city itself is subdivided into eight Union Councils. Sitting far to the northwest of the province, near the provincial boundaries of Sindh and Balochistan, Jacobabad became a city on the site of an existing village (Khangarh), and is crossed by the Pakistan Railways and many main roads of the province. It is the 43rd most populous city in Pakistan.
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Place details
- Locality
- جیکب آباد
- Region
- سندھ
- Country
- پاکستان
- Population
- 219,315
- Timezone
Travel guide
Understand
Jacobabad is named after Brigadier-General John Jacob CB (1812 – 1858), an officer of the British East India Company who planned and supervised the transformation of thousands of acres of desert into arable land sourring the city with the excavation of the Begaree Canal.
Get in
Trains running between Karachi and Quetta calls in Jacobabad, including the Bolan Mail. There are also some trains from northern Pakistan that calls here.
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- Etymology
- History
- Demographics
- Population
- Languages
- Religion
- Climate
- Airport and airbase
- See also
- Notes
- References
Jacobabad, () is a city in Sindh, Pakistan, serving as both the capital city of Jacobabad District and the administrative centre of Jacobabad Taluka, an administrative subdivision of the district. The city itself is subdivided into eight Union Councils. Sitting far to the northwest of the province, near the provincial boundaries of Sindh and Balochistan, Jacobabad became a city on the site of an existing village (Khangarh), and is crossed by the Pakistan Railways and many main roads of the province. It is the 43rd most populous city in Pakistan.
The city is one of the hottest places on earth, with summer temperatures regularly rising to a mean temperature of . In particular, compounded by the humidity and climate change, Jacobabad has several times exceeded a wet-bulb temperature of , above which the human body cannot sufficiently cool itself. Jacobabad has been cited as one of the world's most vulnerable places to global warming, and one where the difference between 1.5 °C and 2 °C can be the difference between life and death.
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