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Punjab is a state in northern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast, Rajasthan to the southwest, and the Pakistani province of Punjab to the west. The state covers an area of 50,362 square kilometres, 1.53% of India's total geographical area. It is the 20th-largest Indian state by area.
There are total number of revenue villages in the state is 12,278. There are 22 Zila Parishads, 136 Municipal Committees and 22 Improvement Trusts looking after 143 towns and 14 cities of Punjab.There are 12800 Gram Panchayats in Punjab which is more than the number of villages in Punjab.
Between 1951 and 2011, population density of Punjab grew substantially from 182 to 550 people per square kilometer of land area rising at an increasing annual rate that reached a maximum of 23.79 % in 1981 and then decreased to 13.64 % in 2011.