Gujranwala Division, once a district of Lahore Division, is an administrative division of the Punjab Province of Pakistan. The division, headquartered at the city of Gujranwala, covers an area of 17,206 km2, the population according to the 1981 census was 7,522,352 this had risen by almost four 4 million to 11,431,058 according to the 1998 census.