Bahawalnagar is the capital city of Bahawalnagar District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. As well as being district capital it has the administrative headquarters of the tehsil.

Bahawalnagar is the administrative centre of Bahawalnagar District, one of the five tehsils or subdivisions of the district, the tehsil is subdivided into 31 Union Councils. The Bahawal Nagar is the district headquarter of tehsils Haroonabad, Chistian, Fortabbass and Minchanabad. t is one of the largest districts of Panjab with respect to its area. The largest union council of Bahawal Nagar is U.C 6. As of 2011, Asim Iqbal is serving Bahawal Nagar as D.C.O.^{[citation needed]}

Punjabi is the main language, Urdu (the national language) is widely spoken.^{[citation needed]}

Bahawalnagar is blessed with talent, there are poets, writers, saints, scholars and every kind of professional. Syed Wali Shah is the Sufi here. His tomb is situated in a town named Peer Shah. Engr Abdullah Abbas is well known personality of the district and belongs to Paracha Family, the influential family of the region. Writers like Syed Noor Alam, Aijaz Saqib, Saleem Shehzad, Amir Sohail and Anwaar Gilani, Major Bashir Ahmad Khokhar Principal Fauji Foundation Higher Secondary School Bahawalnagar belong to the city.

Ghulam Rasool (born 4 May 1962) is a former Pakistani footballer and ASI in Islamabad Police and subsequently a football manager and head coach. He is the current head coach and General Secretary of the Quaid-e-Azam Football Club.