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IMPERIAL GAZETTE ER OF INDIA. VOLUME X. Múltán (Mooltan).—Division or Commissionership in the Punjab, lying between 29° 1' and 32° + n. lat., and between 70° 36' and 74° 2' E. long., and comprising the four Districts of MULTAN, JHANG, MoxtGOMERY, and MUZAFFARGARH, each of which see separately. The Division is bounded on the north by Shahpur District, on the east by Gujranwala and Lahore Districts; on the south by the river Sutlej, which separates it from the Native State of Bahawalpur; and on the west by the river Indus, which separates it from Dera Ismail Khán District. Area (1881), 20,295 square miles, containing 25 towns and 4339 villages, with 297,668 houses. Population (1868) 1,477,936 ; (1881) 1,712,394, namely, males 936,356, and females 776,038. Total increase in the thirteen years 1868-1881, 234,458, or 15'9 per cent. Number of families, 359,294. Average density of population, 84 persons per square mile. Classified according to religion, there were in 1881–Muhammadans, 1,385,782, or 80-9 per cent. ; Hindus, 304,164, or 177 per cent.; Sikhs, 20,314, or 1'2 per cent. ; Jains, 63 ; Parsis, 67; Christians, 1998; and others,' 6. Múltán Division contains 25 municipal towns, with an urban population of 9.95 per cent. of the total population of the Division; while of the total of 4364 towns and villages, 3413 contained less than five hundred inhabitants, and 612 from five hundred to a thousand. Aver area under cultivation for the five years 1877-78 to 1881-82, 2397 square miles ; cultivated area in 1883–84, 2519 square miles. Total revenue in 1883-84, £ 291,630, of which £154,727 was derived from the land-tax.–For further information, see the District notices for MULTAN, JHANG, MONTGOMERY, and MUZAFFARGARH. VOL. X