Minchinabad Tehsil تحصِيل مِنچِن آباد‬
Tehsil
Tehsil Municipal Administration logo
Location of Minchinabad Tehsil in Punjab, Pakistan
Coordinates: 30.1622° N, 73.5653° E
Country	Pakistan
Region	Punjab
District	Bahawalnagar
Capital	Minchinabad
Towns	1
Union councils	25
Government
• Assistant Commissioner	Ahmad Saleem Chishti
• Chief Officer	Syed Rashid Ghaznavi
Area
• Tehsil	1,818 km2 (702 sq mi)
Population  (2017)[1]
• Tehsil	526,428
• Urban	72,541
• Rural	453,887
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)

Minchinabad Tehsil (Urdu: تحصِيل مِنچِن آباد), is a tehsil located in Bahawalnagar District, Punjab, Pakistan. The city of Minchinabad is the headquarters of the tehsil which is administratively subdivided into 25 Union Councils.^[2]

Mandi Sadiq Gunj TC and Mcload Gunj TC, these smaller cities are also included in Tehsil Minchin Abad.

A canal named Head Ford Wah passes through Minchin Abad city and worth seeing is suspended bridge built on this canal during British Rule in Subcontinent.

The notables in Minchin Abad Tehsil are: Mian Abdul Ghaffar Wattoo MNA, Syed Asghar Shah, Shoukat Ali Laleka and Mian Fida Hussain Wattoo.

Geography

Minchinabad Tehsil has an area of 1,818 km².^[3]

Adjacent tehsils

• Depalpur Tehsil, Okara District (north)
• Fazilka Tehsil, Fazilka District, Punjab, India (northeast)
• Sri Ganganagar Tehsil, Sri Ganganagar District, Rajasthan, India (south)
• Karanpur Tehsil, Sri Ganganagar District, Rajasthan, India (southwest)
• Bahawalnagar Tehsil (southwest)
• Pakpattan Tehsil, Pakpattan District (northwest)

Demographics

According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, there are 526,428 people living in Minchinabad Tehsil and 83,173 households.^[1] Its population recorded in the 1998 census was 354,261.^[3]