Punjab PCS 2025 · Interview kit
Punjab at a glance: click your district
The board will ask about your home district from your DAF. Tap any district on the map for its key facts, then open its full profile with 2025–26 events and likely questions.
23districts
50,362sq km area
2.77 crpeople (Census 2011)
117Assembly seats
13 + 7Lok Sabha + Rajya Sabha
1 Nov 1966present state formed
The map: 23 districts, 3 regions, 4 rivers
MajhaDoabaMalwaRivers
All 23 districts by region
Majha4 districts
North of the Beas, along the Ravi and the Pakistan border
AmritsarGurdaspurPathankotTarn TaranDoaba4 districts
Between the Beas and the Sutlej, Punjab’s NRI heartland
HoshiarpurJalandharKapurthalaSBS Nagar (Nawanshahr)Malwa15 districts
South of the Sutlej: the largest region, with most Assembly seats
BarnalaBathindaFaridkotFatehgarh SahibFazilkaFerozepurLudhianaMalerkotlaMansaMogaPatialaRupnagarSAS Nagar (Mohali)SangrurSri Muktsar SahibPunjab basics the board expects you to know
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Rivers
- Sutlej: enters at Nangal (Bhakra dam)
- Beas: joins the Sutlej at Harike
- Ravi: forms part of the Pakistan border
- Ghaggar: seasonal, floods Patiala and Sangrur
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Regions
- Majha: Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Tarn Taran
- Doaba: land between the Beas and the Sutlej
- Malwa: south of the Sutlej, 15 districts
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Polity
- Capital: Chandigarh (a Union Territory shared with Haryana)
- Reorganised on 1 Nov 1966 (Punjab Reorganisation Act)
- Punjabi in Gurmukhi is the official language (1967 Act)
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Symbols and wetlands
- State animal: blackbuck; bird: baaz (northern goshawk)
- State tree: shisham
- Ramsar sites include Harike, Kanjli, Ropar, Keshopur-Miani
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