Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Dera Ghazi Khan (Punjabi, Urdu: ضِلع ڈيره غازى خان), is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Its capital is Dera Ghazi Khan city. The district covers an area of 5,306 m² and it is a long narrow strip of country, 198 km. in length, sloping gradually from the hills which form its western boundary to the river Indus on the east. Below the hills the country is high and arid, generally level, but sometimes rolling in sandy undulations, and intersected by 201 hill torrents. With the exceptions of two, these streams dry up after the rains, and their influence is only felt for a few miles below the hills.China is financing a new coal project in the area.The eastern portion of the district is at a level sufficiently low to benefit by the floods of the Indus. A barren tract intervenes between these zones and is beyond the reach of the hill streams on the one hand and of the Indus on the other. Although liable to great extremes of temperature and to a very scanty rainfall, the district is not unhealthy.The Sulaiman Mountains rise to a height of 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in the north of the district.. }
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- Dera_Ghazi_Khan_District abstract "Dera Ghazi Khan (Punjabi, Urdu: ضِلع ڈيره غازى خان), is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Its capital is Dera Ghazi Khan city. The district covers an area of 5,306 m² and it is a long narrow strip of country, 198 km. in length, sloping gradually from the hills which form its western boundary to the river Indus on the east. Below the hills the country is high and arid, generally level, but sometimes rolling in sandy undulations, and intersected by 201 hill torrents. With the exceptions of two, these streams dry up after the rains, and their influence is only felt for a few miles below the hills.China is financing a new coal project in the area.The eastern portion of the district is at a level sufficiently low to benefit by the floods of the Indus. A barren tract intervenes between these zones and is beyond the reach of the hill streams on the one hand and of the Indus on the other. Although liable to great extremes of temperature and to a very scanty rainfall, the district is not unhealthy.The Sulaiman Mountains rise to a height of 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in the north of the district.".