Khushab district holds the Salt Range and the Soan valley, some of the oldest occupied ground in South Asia. Soanian stone tools from the Soan valley are among the earliest evidence of human presence in the subcontinent.
The Khewra salt mine, in the adjoining Jhelum district, is the second largest salt mine in the world and has been worked since at least the Mughal period, with tradition attributing its discovery to Alexander's horses.
Hadali, Khushwant Singh's village, is in Khushab district, and the villagers put up a plaque when he visited in 1987 calling him their brother.
The Soan Sakesar valley and the salt lakes of the range are a distinct landscape unlike anything in the Punjab plain.
The district is heavy recruiting country and was the home of the Tiwana family, whose last Unionist Premier of Punjab resigned in March 1947.
Everything on this page is in Punjab and none of it is in the Punjab that either country's schoolchildren are taught about.
The range is a fold of ancient marine rock pushed up at the plain's edge, and the salt in it is among the oldest evaporite deposits anywhere, laid down long before the Himalaya existed.
Katas Raj in the same range is an ancient temple complex around a pool, a Hindu pilgrimage site that Indian parties visit under the religious travel arrangements.
The Soan valley here gave its name to the Soanian, the Palaeolithic stone tool tradition of the region, which is the earliest human record anywhere in the Punjab.