Marot

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Marot
مروٹ
City
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Fort Marot
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Location of Marot (in red) in Punjab, Pakistan and (inset) Punjab in Pakistan
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CountryFile:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan
ProvincePunjab
DistrictBahawalnagar
TehsilFort Abbas
Population
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Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Postal code
62000
Dialling code063
Number of Union councils4
Marot Cantonment is a legally separate military-administered settlement.

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Marot (Punjabi, Template:Langx) is a city in Bahawalnagar District in Punjab, Pakistan.[1] This city is situated at the border with India. This city is situated 50 km from Fort Abbas, 160 km from Bahawalnagar and 100 km from Bahawalpur. The population of the city is estimated 20,000, with some 280,000 in the entire district. It contains some notable forts such as Marot Fort, Jaamgarh, Mojgarh and Meergarh.

Local people are largely associated with farming and major crops are wheat, cotton, mustard and sugarcane.

The spoken languages are Punjabi and Urdu. The Marot is one of the nine principal fortiefied Bhati Rajput towns in the Thar Desert, according to historical records.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Pakistan- Settlements". data.humdata.org. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 2025. Retrieved May 19, 2025.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kothiyal, Tanuja (2016). Nomadic Narratives: A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian. Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 9781107080317.