Jhang is Heer's country. The Sials of Jhang are her family in the qissa, and the tomb attributed to Heer and Ranjha is at Jhang and is visited, particularly by young people, which local clergy have periodically objected to.
Sultan Bahu was from Shorkot in this district and his shrine at Garh Maharaja draws very large numbers at the urs.
The district sits on the Chenab in the old Sandal Bar country and was pastoral before the canals.
Its speech is on the Punjabi and Saraiki boundary and the classification is argued.
Abdus Salam, Pakistan's only science Nobel laureate, was born at Jhang in 1926.
A district that produced the setting of the greatest Punjabi poem, one of its greatest Sufi poets and a Nobel physicist is known outside Pakistan for none of those things.
The tomb attributed to Heer at Jhang is maintained and draws visitors. The qissa is Waris Shah's, written in the eighteenth century, and the geography in it is this tract.
Jhang was a Sial chiefdom before the Sikh conquest and the town has a Mughal period core. Its Sikh and Hindu population, small to begin with, left in 1947.
Abdus Salam's schooling was at Jhang. His standing in Pakistan has been contested since 1974 and public commemoration of him there has been intermittent.