• 1A region of north-western India and Pakistan, a wide, fertile plain traversed by the River Indus and the five tributaries which gave the region its name.

  旁遮普地区（印度西北部和巴基斯坦一地区，是印度河与旁遮普河的五条支流流经的广阔而肥沃的草原，该地区正因旁遮普河而得名）

  1. 1.1 A province of Pakistan; capital, Lahore.
     旁遮普省（巴基斯坦一省，首府拉合尔）
  2. 1.2 A state of India; capital, Chandigarh. Until 1966 the Punjab also encompassed what is now the state of Haryana.
     旁遮普邦（印度一邦，首府昌迪加尔；1966年前旁遮普邦还包括现在的哈里亚纳邦）

The region became a centre of Sikhism in the 15th century and, after the capture of Lahore in 1799 by Ranjit Singh, a powerful Sikh kingdom. It was annexed by the British in 1849 and became a part of British India. In the partition of 1947 it was divided between Pakistan and India