Taxila Cantonment

Taxila Cantonment ٹیکسلا کینٹ‬
Neighbourhood
The Dharmarajika Stupa is located near Taxila Cantonment
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
City	Taxila
Population (1998)
• Total	22,978
Website	Cantonment Board Taxila

Taxila Cantonment (Urdu: ٹیکسلا کینٹ‎) is a cantonment adjacent to Taxila in Rawalpindi District, Punjab province, Pakistan. The city is home to Heavy Industries Taxila — a major defence, engineering conglomerate, and military corporation. Taxila Cantonment is also home to the HITEC University.

Taxila Cantonment is located immediately east of Taxila city, and is surrounded by the villages of Shahpur, Dhok Wajjan, and Karamwal. It is also bordered by Taxila's neighbourhoods of Muslim Colony and Hassan Colony. The cantonment is 41 kilometres away from Islamabad by road.

Taxila Cantonment is the location of Taxila's railway station, the Taxila Cantonment Junction railway station, also known as Taxila Junction. Taxila Junction is served by the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line, and is the southern terminus of the Khunjerab Railway, which connects Taxila to the Havelian railway station. A planned extension of the railway will eventually connect Taxila to China's Southern Xinjiang Railway in Kashgar, as part of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Taxila junction's road network merges into that of the Taxila city. The ancient Grand Trunk Road is designated as N-5 National Highway, and connects the city to the Afghan border, and northern Punjab. The Karakoram Highway's southern terminus is in nearby Hasan Abdal, and connects Taxila to the Chinese border near theHunza Valley.