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Ludhiana

Ludhiana is the most populous city in the Indian state of Punjab.

Ludhiana
Ludhiana · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Ludhiana is the most populous city in the Indian state of Punjab. The city has an estimated population of 1,618,879 as of the 2011 census and distributed over 310 km2 (120 sq mi), making Ludhiana the most densely populated urban centre in the state. It is a major industrial center of Northern India, referred to as "India's Manchester" by the BBC. It is also known as the commercial capital of Punjab.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ludhiana

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Punjab Agricultural University

    Punjab Agricultural University is a public funded agricultural university located in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. It is a central agricultural university in India established under Harayana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act 1970 enacted by Parliament in the Twenty first Year of the Republic of India.

    4.3 km · state public university in Ludhiana, Punjab, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Guru Nanak Stadium

    Guru Nanak Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Ludhiana, India. It hosts football matches and athletic competitions.

    700 m · building in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana

    Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College is one of the oldest engineering institutions of the northern region situated at Gill Park, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. The foundation stone of the college was laid on 8 April 1956 by Hon'ble Dr.

    5.4 km · autonomous college in Ludhiana, Punjab · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Lodhi Fort

    The Lodi Fort, also spelt as Lodhi Fort, is a citadel in the city of Ludhiana, Punjab, India. The fortress is located on the banks of the river Sutlej and contains a tunnel leading to the neighboring town of Phillaur.

    1.7 km · fort at Ludhiana · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Ludhiana is not much of a tourist spot but is more an upcoming cosmopolitan city of India. With numerous malls and multiplexes under construction, these modern state-of-the art buildings are what tourists from nearby places come here to see and check out. The main malls of the city are Westend, Silver Arc and MBD.

  1. 01
    Museum of Rural History of Punjab
  2. 02
    Lodhi Fort
  3. 03
    Payal Fort

    Nehru Rose Garden, Government College Rd, New Prem Nagar, Civil Lines.

From Wikivoyage: Ludhiana, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Mall Road, Model town, Kipps Market are famous destinations of most of people to get around, shopping, street food. You can watch the latest movies in the PVR cinemas in Silver Arc or Waves at the Westend. Incidentally, Silver Arc also has the largest PVR cinemas in North India with a two-level, six-screen multiplex. There are many other beautiful places like Rose Garden, DreamLand, Rakh Baug.

From Wikivoyage: Ludhiana, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

You can find famous food chains like Mc Donalds, KFC and Pizza Hut in the malls or around.

From Wikivoyage: Ludhiana, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Ludhiana

Airports
Halwara (HWR), 28 km · Shaheed Bhagat Singh (IXC), 93 km · Sri Guru Ram Das Ji (ATQ), 134 km
Stations
Ludhiana Junction railway station, 500 m · Dhandari Kalan railway station, 6.7 km · Ladhowal railway station, 9.3 km
  • Chandigarh → Ludhiana
    91 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · ₹640–800
  • Amritsar → Ludhiana
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · ₹910–1,140
  • Hisar → Ludhiana
    196 km · quickest by road, 4h · ₹1,570–1,970
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ludhiana

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ludhiana. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundBut a lot rickshaws and auto-rickshaws are constantly taking people from Point A to Point B.

From Wikivoyage: Ludhiana, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Tirthan ValleyIN

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    170 km
  2. 02
    ChitkulIN

    7 ways of moving, 20 sources

    251 km
  3. 03
    KazaIN

    7 ways of moving, 18 sources

    256 km
  4. 04
    LehIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    397 km
  5. 05
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    431 km

If you know how people move in Ludhiana – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ludhiana

Ludhiana is 53 km from Jalandhar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.