Kot Addu
Taunsa Barrage on the Indus at dusk, near Kot Addu

Punjab · Indus · Pakistan

Kot Adduکوٹ ادو

Where the Indus meets southern Punjab.

142,161
City population

PBS census, 2023 · city

16 km
To Taunsa Barrage

Municipal geography

2022
District since

Punjab, October 2022

Indus
River system

East bank of the Indus

Karim Dad Qureshi Road in Kot Addu

The city

A city shaped by water, land and movement.

Canals drawn from the Indus turned a flat plain into mango, citrus, and cane country. From the 1980s, thermal plants and the refinery at Mehmood Kot made the same riverbank an industrial corridor. In 2022 the tehsil became a district of its own.

City, district, and facts
Taunsa Barrage on the Indus at dusk, near Kot Addu

The Indus

Where water becomes landscape.

The river is more than geography. It shapes the land, the canals, and the identity of this floodplain. Taunsa Barrage, sixteen kilometres out, holds the water that feeds the fields.

16 km · Taunsa Barrage

Explore the barrage

Plan a visit

October to March is the season.

Cooler days, barrage light, and dolphin-watching weather. Rail code ADK; fly into Multan.

Getting here