West Punjab was a province of
Pakistan from 1947 to 1955. The province covered an area of 205,344 km2 (79,284 sq mi), including much of the current
Punjab province and the
Islamabad Capital Territory, but excluding the former
princely state of
Bahawalpur. The capital was the city of
Lahore and the province was composed of four divisions (
Lahore,
Sargodha,
Multan and
Rawalpindi). The province was bordered by the Indian states of
East Punjab and
Jammu and Kashmir to the east, the princely state of Bahawalpur to the south, the provinces of
Balochistan and
Sind to the southwest,
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to the northwest, and
Azad Kashmir to the northeast.