Patiala District is located on the south-eastern part of
Punjab. It is bounded by
Fatehgarh Sahib,
Rupnagar districts and Union Territory of
Chandigarh in the north, Fatehgarh Sahib and
Sangrur districts in the west,
Ambala and
Kurukshetra districts of neighboring state of
Haryana in the east and
Kaithal District of Haryana in the south. It has an area of 3,627 sq km with a population of about 2 million.
Major crops are wheat, rapeseed and mustard, maize, jowar, rice, gram, pulses, sugarcane, barley, massar, potato, and cotton. Patiala is famous for Punjabi jutti, silver and gold embroidered ‘naalas’, parandhas(plaits decorative), beautiful hand-woven head coverings, and Phulkaris.
The prime attractions are Moti Bagh Palace, Sheesh Mahal, Panwas Quila Mubarik, Kali Devi Mandir,
Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib,
Gurdwara Patshahi Ninth, Nawab Saif Khan's Mosque.
