Amritsar district sits in the Bari Doab against the border, with tehsils at Amritsar, Ajnala, Baba Bakala and Majitha. Its western edge is the fence.
Its agriculture is wheat and paddy with a substantial basmati area, and its water table is falling like the rest of central Punjab. Its industry is small: textiles, food processing, and the trades attached to pilgrimage.
It holds the Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh, the Partition Museum, Khalsa College, Guru Nanak Dev University, the Attari crossing, Ram Tirath, Ramdas, Baba Bakala, Jandiala Guru and the Ajnala well.
Amritsar city receives more visitors than any other place in Punjab by a very large margin, and almost all of them see one square kilometre of it.
What is not recorded: the pre-1900 fabric of the walled city, the condition of the katras, the village-level record of Ghadar and Akali participation across the district, and the samadhs and jatheras of its villages.
Its tehsils are Amritsar I, Amritsar II, Ajnala, Baba Bakala, Majitha and Lopoke, with Tarn Taran separated out in 2006. It is small in area and takes more visitors than the rest of the state combined.
The city has grown well past its municipal limits along the Jalandhar and Ajnala roads, and the land between the bypass and the border is being converted faster than any plan has kept up with.
At Ajnala on the Ravi, the remains of men of a mutinied regiment killed in 1857 were recovered from a well beneath a gurdwara in 2014.