Chak Jhumra

{{short description|Town in Faisalabad District, Pakistan}}

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Chak Jhumra

| settlement_type = Tehsil, Town

| native_name = {{nq|چک جھمرہ}}

| image_blank_emblem = Municipal Committee Chak Jhumra.jpg

| blank_emblem_type = Municipal Committee logo

| blank_emblem_alt = Municipal Committee Chak Jhumra

| image_skyline = Chak Jhumra - Suspense Digest Nostalgia.jpg

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| image_caption = Chak Jhumra railways

| pushpin_map = Pakistan

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Pakistan

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Pakistan

| subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_name1 = Punjab

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = Faisalabad

| subdivision_type3 = Capital

| subdivision_name3 = Chak Jhumra

| subdivision_type4 = Towns

| subdivision_name4 = 1

| subdivision_type5 = Union councils

| subdivision_name5 = 15{{cite web|title=Chak Jhumra on District Government Faisalabad (Strategic Policy Unit)|url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/PAKISTANEXTN/Resources/293051-1114424648263/Session-VI-Faisalabad.pdf|publisher=District Government Faisalabad website|access-date=20 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223001237/http://siteresources.worldbank.org/PAKISTANEXTN/Resources/293051-1114424648263/Session-VI-Faisalabad.pdf|archive-date=23 February 2014|url-status=dead}}

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| population_as_of = 2017

| population_footnotes = {{cite web|url=http://www.pbscensus.gov.pk/sites/default/files/bwpsr/punjab/FAISLABAD_SUMMARY.pdf|title=DISTRICT AND TEHSIL LEVEL POPULATION SUMMARY WITH REGION BREAKUP: PUNJAB|date=2018-01-03|access-date=20 April 2021|publisher=Pakistan Bureau of Statistics|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508151358/http://www.pbscensus.gov.pk/sites/default/files/bwpsr/punjab/FAISLABAD_SUMMARY.pdf|archive-date=8 May 2018|url-status=dead}}

| population_note =

| population_total = 332,461

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| population_urban = 48,724

| population_rural = 283,737

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| coordinates = {{coord|31|34|N|73|11|E|region:Pakistan|display=inline,title}}

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| timezone = PST

| utc_offset = +5

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| postal_code = 37700

| area_code = 041

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File:CHAK JHUMRA.jpg

Chak Jhumra (Punjabi: چک جُھمرہ), is a town, railway junction, and Tehsil in Punjab, Pakistan. The town is situated around {{Convert|21|km|mi}} northeast of Faisalabad on Faisalabad-Sangla Hill Road. The Khanewal–Wazirabad Branch and Sangla Hill–Kundian Branch intersect in the town and connect it to Faisalabad and Sargodha respectively.[https://www.dawn.com/news/1125881/newspaper/column Tevta plans institute at Chak Jhumra] Dawn (newspaper), Published 17 August 2014, retrieved 20 April 2021

Prior to the establishment of Pakistan, the town was known as a hub of the cotton trade. At the time, three cotton ginning factories operated within the town. Following the Partition of India, much of the town's Hindu population, of which many were traders, immigrated to India, briefly causing decline in business.

Beginning in the 1960s, the town began to again experience economic growth and development of infrastructure. At this time a number of schools, hospitals, and textile factories were constructed within the town.[https://nation.com.pk/19-Jan-2021/governor-inaugurates-first-clean-drinking-water-project-in-chak-jhumra Governor inaugurates first clean drinking water project in Chak Jhumra] The Nation (newspaper), Published 19 January 2021, retrieved 20 April 2021

Today, textile manufacturing is the dominant industry within Chak Jhumra.