Chiniot
Chiniot is a city and the administrative headquarters of Chiniot District in the province of Punjab, Pakistan.

Chiniot is a city and the administrative headquarters of Chiniot District in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. Located on the bank of the river Chenab, it is the 28th most populous city in the country.
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Worth seeing in and around Chiniot
6 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.
- 01Aqsa Mosque
The Aqsa Mosque in Rabwah is the main and largest mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan. Its foundation stone was laid down in 1966.
7.8 km · mosque in Rabwah, Pakistan · Wikipedia - 02Shahi Mosque
Shahi Mosque is a historic 17th century mosque located in Chiniot, Punjab, Pakistan. Constructed between 1646 and 1655, the Mughal Grand Vizier Saadullah Khan is traditionally identified as its builder; accordingly he built the mosque at the place where he had received his education.
700 m · Mosque in Pakistan · Wikipedia - 03Bahishti Maqbara
Bahishti Maqbara, located originally in Qadian, India, and then in Rabwah, Pakistan, is a religious cemetery established by the Ahmadiyya Community as a directive from the community's founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, made known in his booklet Al-Wasiyyat. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad established it in his will after he saw an angel showing him the place of his burial.
7.9 km · cemetery in Pakistan · Wikipedia - 04Omar Hayat Mahal
Omar Hayat Mahal, also spelt Umer Hayat Mahal, and alternatively known as Gulzar Manzil, is an early 20th-century wooden haveli mansion in Chiniot, Pakistan. Construction of the mansion was started in 1923, and completed by 1935.
400 m · haveli mansion in Chiniot, Pakistan · Wikipedia - 05Talim-ul-Islam College
Talim-ul-Islam College is a government college located in Rabwah, Pakistan. Founded in 1898 in Qadian, India by the Ahmadiyya Community.
7.1 km · government college in Chenab Nagar, Pakistan · Wikipedia - 06Chiniot Bridge
Chiniot Bridge is a concrete bridge on the Chenab River located in Chiniot in Punjab, Pakistan. It is about 520 meters in length and 17.8 meters wide.
5 km · bridge in Pakistan · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Shahi Mosque
- 02Omar Hayat Mahal
An early 20th-century wooden haveli mansion, completed in 1935.
From Wikivoyage: Chiniot, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
There is one very special dish of Chiniot called Chinioti Kunna.
From Wikivoyage: Chiniot, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Chiniot
- Airports
- Faisalabad (LYP), 39 km · Allama Iqbal (LHE), 136 km · Sialkot (SKT), 159 km
- Stations
- Chenab Nagar railway station, 8.4 km · Chiniot railway station, 1.4 km · Munianwala railway station, 8.8 km
- Lahore → Chiniot131 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · ₨1,180–1,570
- Sialkot → Chiniot170 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · ₨1,370–1,820
- Attock → Chiniot235 km · quickest by road, 4h 50m · ₨2,430–3,240
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chiniot
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 Chiniot. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundYou can get around by Auto-Rickshaws which run on set routes, so if you want to go somewhere without waiting for the rickshaw to fill, you have to pay extra.
From Wikivoyage: Rabwah, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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Next door to Chiniot
Chiniot is 25 km from Chak Jhumra, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Chiniot Districtdistrict of Punjab, Pakistan400 m
- Rabwahcity in Punjab, Pakistan7.2 km