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Khairpur
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| Coordinates: 27°19′N 68°28′E / 27.32°N 68.46°E | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province | Sindh |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+5) |
Khairpur (Sindhi: خیرپور, Urdu: خیرپور) (khīr´poor) is the twelfth largest city in the province of Sindh in southeast Pakistan. It is the capital of the modern Khairpur District and was the capital of the former princely state of Khayrpur. This city produced hundreds of great leaders, folk singers, artists and scholars. The great mystic Sufi Sachal Sarmast, who was from this city. This city is famous for its dates, known in the Sindhi language "Khark", and in Urdu as "Khajoor".
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At the 1998 census, the population of the city of Khairpur was 102,188 having increased from 61,447 at the 1981 census. The city has an estimated population[1] of 127,857 in 2006.
Khairpur trades in wheat, cotton, and dates and is linked by road and rail to Karachi. Manufactures include refined sugar. Prior to the annexation of the state in to Pakistan in 1955, Khairpur was an industrially much more advanced than Pakistan producing leather goods, carpets, silk clothing, matches, soap, shoes, cigarettes to name a few. It also had the largest factories in textiles, tobacco redrying, and silk weaving in the sub-continent.
It has some fine historic buildings notably the Faiz Mahal.
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Khairpur (Urdu: خیرپور) (khīr´poor) is the twelfth largest city in the province of Sindh in southeast Pakistan. Today it is the capital of Khairpur District . It was once the capital of the former princely state of Khayrpur.
According to the 1998 census, the population of the city was 102,188 having increased from 61,447 at the 1981 census.
   | World Gazetteer population figures for Khairpur - World Gazetteer: Khairpur - profile of geographical entity including name variants |
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