Chak (village)

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Chak is an Urdu word, which means village. In the Punjab province of Pakistan, numbers are using instead of names. The villages are named using a certain nomenclature that dates back to British Rule, all names are prefixed "Chak" followed by a number and a letter. The number is the name of the village and the letter indicates how much water the village users.

For example in Sadiqabad the villages use water from a canal for agriculture - these villages are suffixed either with P or NP depending on whether the village uses water for the whole year (P) or for part of the year (NP). The P stands for Punjnad.

In Sadiqabad there are many chacks, some of these include:

• Sadiqabad Chak 130P One-hundred-thirty P
• Sadiqabad Chak 151P One-hundred-fifty-one P
• Sadiqabad Chak 152P One-hundred-fifty-two P
• Sadiqabad Chak 164NP One-hundred-sixty-four P
• Sadiqabad Chak 173P One-hundred-seventy-three P