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{{short description|Town in Punjab, Pakistan}}
{{About|the hill station in Pakistan|other uses of the name|Murree (disambiguation)}}
{{Use Pakistani English|date=October 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox settlement
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| native_name        = {{Nastaliq|مری}}
| settlement_type    = [[City]]
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| caption3    = General Post Office
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| subdivision_name1  = {{flagicon|Punjab}} [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Murree District|Murree]]
| subdivision_name3  = [[Murree Tehsil|Murree]]
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| leader_name        = Agha Zaheer Abbas Sherazi
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| leader_name2        = Kanwar M. Ayyan
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| population_total   = 25,186{{efn|This figure includes the population of Murree Municipal Committee and Murree Hills cantonment.}}
| population_as_of   = [[2023 Census of Pakistan|2023]]
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'''Murree'''{{efn|[[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], {{Langx|ur|{{nq|مری}}}}}} is a [[mountain resort]] city in the northernmost region of the [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] province of [[Pakistan]]. Lying in the [[Galyat]] region of the [[Pir Panjal Range]] under the western [[Himalayas]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rahman |first1=Amjad |last2=Gürbüz |first2=Esra |last3=Chen |first3=Jiquan |last4=Ekercin |first4=Semih |chapter=Spatial Diversity, Patterns of Forest Vegetation, and Sustainability Analysis of the Murree Mountains of Western Himalayas |title=Biodiversity, Conservation and Sustainability in Asia |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-73943-0_15 |date=2022 |pages=267–286 |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-73943-0_15|isbn=978-3-030-73942-3 |chapter-url-access=subscription }}</ref> it is located in the northeast of the capital city of [[Islamabad]]. The town was built in the mid-19th century and served as the [[summer capital]] of the [[Punjab Province (British India)|British Punjab]], allowing British troops to escape the scorching heat of the [[Punjab Plain|plains of Punjab]].<ref>{{harvnb|Crossette|1998|p=24}}: "Murree was founded in the 1850s as the summer capital of the British Indian army's Northern Command, and some top officials of the counterpart civilian government, also based in Rawalpindi, had seasonal residences there. Among the well-known hill stations of British India, Murree alone went to Islamic Pakistan at Partition, taking with it all the trappings of any mountain resort."</ref><ref name="Gibson">{{harvnb|Gibson|2023|p=76}}: "Murree was developed first into a sanitarium and retreat for troops, and later into a summer hill station, housing an invalid hospital, cottages for civil and military families, hotels, a brewery, and a Lawrence Memorial Asylum for the education of poor and orphaned European children."</ref> It has an average altitude of {{convert|2291|m|ft|0}}.

Construction of the town was started in 1851 on the hills of Murree as a [[sanatorium]] for [[British troops]]. The permanent town of Murree was constructed in 1853 and a church was consecrated shortly thereafter. One main road was established, commonly referred to as "Mall Road". Murree was the headquarters of the colonial Government of the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]] during the 1873–1875 summer; later the summer capital was moved to [[Shimla]].{{sfn|Kennedy|1996|p=166}}<ref>{{citation |last1=Crossette |first1=Barbara |author-link=Barbara Crossette |title=Murree Journal; Hill Station Thrives, a Piece of Time Gone By |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/10/world/murree-journal-hill-station-thrives-a-piece-of-time-gone-by.html |access-date=25 April 2025 |publisher=originally published in [[The Times]]’s print archive |via=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 November 1990}}</ref>

Murree became a popular tourist station for British citizens of the [[British Raj]]. It is the birthplace of several prominent Britons including [[Bruce Bairnsfather]], [[Francis Younghusband]], [[Reginald Dyer]] and [[Joanna Kelley]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Kelley [née Beadon], Joanna Elizabeth (1910–2003), prison administrator|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-89897|access-date=2020-06-25|year = 2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/89897}}</ref> During the colonial era, access to commercial establishments was restricted for non-Europeans.<ref name="Gibson" /> Such establishments included [[Lawrence College, Murree]].{{sfn|Kennedy|1996|p=136}}

Since the [[independence of Pakistan]] in 1947, Murree has retained its position as a popular [[hill station]], noted for its pleasant summer weather.<ref>{{cite news |title=In pictures: At leisure in the Pakistani town of Murree |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24347177 |work=BBC |date=23 October 2013}}</ref> It is located close to the [[Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area]] from where it attracts huge number of tourists.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Abbasi |first1=Aurangzaib |title=Tourists make a beeline for Murree |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2335904/tourists-make-a-beeline-for-murree |work=The Express Tribune |date=28 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref> The town also serves as a transit point for tourists visiting [[Azad Kashmir]] and [[Abbottabad]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/743914/independence-day-festivity-plans-finalised-for-murree/|title=Independence Day: Festivity plans finalized for Murree |date=2014-08-04|newspaper=The Express Tribune|language=en-US|access-date=16 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1200394|title=Pakistanis not free to go to Murree on Independence Day|last=Asghar|first=Mohammad|date=2015-08-14|newspaper=Dawn|access-date=16 October 2021}}</ref> The town is noted for its [[Tudorbethan]] and [[Neo Gothic|neo-gothic]] architecture. The [[Government of Pakistan]] owns a summer retreat in Murree, where foreign dignitaries including heads of state often visit.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/308249-Nawaz-Tajikistan-President-meet-in-Murree|title=Nawaz, Tajikistan President meet in Murree|website= Dunya TV News website|date=14 February 2008 |access-date=16 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2016/05/09/national/pm-house-rejects-imrans-murree-home-renovation-claim/|title=PM House rejects Imran's Murree 'home renovation' claim|access-date=16 October 2021|newspaper=[[Pakistan Today]]|date=9 May 2016}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:KITLV A690 - Holy Trinity Church te Murree bij Islamabad in Brits-India, KITLV 100822.tif|thumb|Murree in 1870]]
Murree or ''Marhee'' also spelt ''Marhi'' which means high place,<ref>{{cite dictionary |last1=Heath |first1=John E. |author-link1=John Everett-Heath |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199580897.001.0001/acref-9780199580897-e-5014?rskey=EswHaH&result=5671&q= |title=Murree |dictionary=Oxford Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2012 |edition=2nd |access-date=16 October 2021}}</ref> as it was then called, was first identified as a potential hill station by Major [[James Abbott (Indian Army officer)|James Abbott]] in 1847.{{efn|name="abott"}} When Abbott arrived at the site he wrote:
<blockquote>
"I was probably the first Englishman that had ever set foot upon it... I saw here for the first time the magnificent mass of [[Mushkpuri Top|Mount Maachpoora]] of which I had heard and dreamed so much, presenting toward the River Jelum a stupendous surface of precipice. Its summit is densely covered with cedar forests and is the resort of Jogies and alchemysts from India, who hold watch there by night expecting, by dint of certain incantations and ceremonies, to discern the spirits which alight as flames of fire upon plants profes-sing alchemical properties."<ref name="Allen">Charles Allen, Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier</ref> </blockquote>

The town's early development was in 1851 by the president of the Punjab Administrative Board, [[Henry Lawrence (Indian Army officer)|Sir Henry Lawrence]].{{efn|name="abott"|The earliest British discovery of Murree, like many of the adjacent hill resorts in the [[Galyat]] range of the [[Hazara region|Hazara]] region, was first made by Major [[James Abbott (Indian Army officer)|James Abbott]] in 1847. Please see [[Charles Allen (writer)|Charles Allen]] ''Soldier Sahibs: The Men who made the North West Frontier'' London: Abacus Books, 2001 p. 141, {{ISBN|0-349-11456-0}}; and ''Journals of Honoria Lawrence'' eds. J. Lawrence and A. Widdiwis, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980 edition. For an account of Abbott's early time in Hazara and the founding of [[Abbottabad]], see Omer Tarin and SD Najumddin, "Five Early Military Graves in the Old Christian Cemetery, Abbottabad, Pakistan, 1853–1888", in ''The Kipling Journal'' (ISSN 0023-1738) Vol 84, No 339, p.35-52}} It was originally established as a [[sanatorium]] for British troops garrisoned on the Afghan frontier.{{sfnp|Chisholm|1911}} Officially, the municipality was created in 1850.{{sfnp|Imperial Gazetteer of India|1909}}

[[File:Senior School.jpg|thumb|Senior School of the [[Lawrence College, Murree]] established in 1860 as part of the [[Lawrence Military Asylums]]{{sfn|Kennedy|1996|p=136}}]]

The permanent town of Murree was constructed at Sunnybank in 1853. The church was sanctified in May 1857, and the main road, Jinnah Road, originally known as Mall Road and still commonly referred to as "The Mall", was built. The most significant commercial establishments, the General Post Office, general merchants with European goods, tailors and a millinery, were established opposite the church. Until 1947, access to Mall Road was restricted for "natives" (non-Europeans).

In the summer of 1857, a rebellion against the British broke out. The local tribes of Murree and [[Hazara region|Hazara]], including the [[Dhund Abbasis]] and others, attacked the depleted British Army garrison in Murree; however, the tribes were ultimately overcome by the British and capitulated.{{sfnp|Lee|2001}} From 1873 to 1875, Murree was the summer headquarters of the Punjab local government;{{sfnp|Imperial Gazetteer of India|1909}}{{sfn|Kennedy|1996|p=166}} after 1876 the headquarters was moved to [[Shimla]].{{sfnp|Chisholm|1911}}

The railway connection with [[Lahore]], the capital of the Punjab Province, via Rawalpindi, made Murree a popular resort for the Punjab officials, and the villas and other houses erected for the accommodation of English families gave it a European aspect. The houses crowned the summit and sides of an irregular ridge, the neighboring hills were covered during the summer with encampments of British troops, while the station itself was filled with European visitors from the plains and travelers to Kashmir. It was connected with Rawalpindi by a service [[Tanga (carriage)|tangas]].{{sfnp|Imperial Gazetteer of India|1909}}

It was described in the ''[[Rawalpindi Gazetteer|Gazetteer of Rawalpindi District]]'', 1893–94 as follows:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131110171351/http://www.harappa.com/engr/murree1.html Murree, in the Punjaub, 1863]</ref><ref>Gazetteer of Rawalpindi District, 1893–94. Page 262, Chapter. VI - TOWNS, MUNICIPALITIES AND CANTOMENTS</ref>

<blockquote>The sanatorium of Murree lies in north latitude 33° 54′ 30″ and east longitude 73° 26′ 30″, at an elevation of {{Convert|7517|ft|m}} above sea level, and contained a standing population of 1,768 inhabitants, which was, however, enormously increased during the [May–November] season by the influx of visitors and their attendant servants and shopkeepers. It is the most accessible hill station in the Punjab, being distant from Rawalpindi only a five hours' journey by tonga dak. Magnificent views are to be obtained in the spring and autumn of the snow-crowned mountains of Kashmir; and gorgeous sunset and cloud effects seen daily during the rains [July–August]. Part of the station, especially the Kashmir end, are also well wooded and pretty.</blockquote>

[[File:Murree Brewery ruins LRMEXPORT 108359030569457 20200626 154855684.jpg|thumb|The ruins of the older building of [[Murree Brewery]] near [[Ghora Gali]], originally built {{circa|1861}}{{sfn|Crossette|1998|p=25}}]]

In 1901, the resident population of the town was 1,844; if summer visitors had been included this could have been as high as 10,000.{{sfnp|Chisholm|1911}}

In early January 2022, more than 20 people died in their vehicles from hypothermia, after being stranded on the road during a [[2022 Murree snowstorm|heavy snowstorm in Murree]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Suliman |first1=Adela |title=Snowstorm kills at least 22, including 10 children, on Pakistani highway after thousands are trapped in cars |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/08/pakistan-snow-dead-muree-tourists/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=8 January 2022}}</ref>

==Climate==
[[File:View of Kashmir from Murree.jpg|thumb|Snow-capped mountains of Kashmir are visible from Murree]]
Murree features a monsoon-influenced [[subtropical highland climate]] (''Cwb'') under the [[Köppen climate classification]]. It is situated in the outer Himalayas, retaining high altitude. This type of area has cold, snowy winters, relatively cool summers with drastically escalated rain, in relation to lower altitudes, and frequent fog. Precipitation is received year round, with two maxima, the first one during winter and the second one at summer, July–August. Total mean precipitation annually is {{Convert|1,904|mm|abbr=on}}.

During the summer months (June to August), average daytime temperatures in Murree range from {{convert|21|C|F|abbr=on}} to {{convert|26|C|F|abbr=on}}, while nighttime temperatures usually fall between {{convert|15|C|F|abbr=on}} and {{convert|18|C|F|abbr=on}}. This comfortable temperature range makes Murree an ideal escape from the heat of the surrounding plains.

Winters in Murree are cold and snowy, with temperatures often dropping below freezing. The average high temperature in January is around {{convert|8|C|F|abbr=on}}, while the average low falls to about {{convert|-3|C|F|abbr=on}}. In February, temperatures rise slightly, with average highs near {{convert|9|C|F|abbr=on}} and lows around {{convert|-2|C|F|abbr=on}}. Murree typically receives snowfall from Western Disturbances, usually occurring between late February and early March.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/city.html?cityId=900 |title=World Weather Information Service&nbsp;— Murree|agency=[[World Meteorological Organization]]|access-date=6 May 2025}}</ref> Murree receives around {{convert|1,590|mm|abbr=on}} of snow per year according to a 13-year data.

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|Jan record high C = 17.2
|Feb record high C = 19.8
|Mar record high C = 23.0
|Apr record high C = 26.0
|May record high C = 32.0
|Jun record high C = 32.2
|Jul record high C = 31.7
|Aug record high C = 27.2
|Sep record high C = 25.6
|Oct record high C = 25.0
|Nov record high C = 22.3
|Dec record high C = 21.1

|Jan high C = 8.4
|Feb high C = 9.6
|Mar high C = 13.12
|Apr high C = 19.2
|May high C = 21.7
|Jun high C = 26.1
|Jul high C = 23.4
|Aug high C = 21.4
|Sep high C = 20.9
|Oct high C = 18.6
|Nov high C = 14.5
|Dec high C = 10.9

|Jan mean C = 3.7
|Feb mean C = 4.0
|Mar mean C = 8.0
|Apr mean C = 13.2
|May mean C = 17.3
|Jun mean C = 20.6
|Jul mean C = 19.1
|Aug mean C = 18.4
|Sep mean C = 17.2
|Oct mean C = 14.3
|Nov mean C = 10.3
|Dec mean C = 6.3

|Jan low C = -3.2
|Feb low C = -2.8
|Mar low C = 1.2
|Apr low C = 8.2
|May low C = 14.8
|Jun low C = 17.1
|Jul low C = 16.7
|Aug low C = 16.2
|Sep low C = 13.2
|Oct low C = 9.2
|Nov low C = 4.2
|Dec low C = 1.0

|Jan record low C = −8.4
|Feb record low C = -10.6
|Mar record low C = −7.0
|Apr record low C = -3.3
|May record low C = 0.6
|Jun record low C = 3.6
|Jul record low C = 8.9
|Aug record low C = 10.0
|Sep record low C = 6.0
|Oct record low C = 1.1
|Nov record low C = -3.3
|Dec record low C = −10.5

|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 126.5
|Feb precipitation mm = 145.0
|Mar precipitation mm = 176.8
|Apr precipitation mm = 133.0
|May precipitation mm = 91.9
|Jun precipitation mm = 142.0
|Jul precipitation mm = 418.3
|Aug precipitation mm = 336.3
|Sep precipitation mm = 161.5
|Oct precipitation mm = 70.2
|Nov precipitation mm = 32.5
|Dec precipitation mm = 70.3

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  |server = [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]]
  |title = Murree Climate Normals 1961–1990
  |access-date =16 October 2021}}</ref>
}}

==Administration==
[[File:Murree Urban UC.svg|thumb|left|Location of the Union Council within the Murree region.]]
The city is the headquarters of the [[Murree District]]. The district has two [[tehsil]]s, [[Kotli Sattian Tehsil|Kotli Sattian]] and [[Murree Tehsil|Murree]]. In March 2022, the Punjab Government upgraded the administrative status of Murree by posting Hassan Waqar Cheema as the first Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC). Its status was updated from tehsil to that of a district in October 2022 after the formal appointment of a Deputy Commissioner in November 2022.

However, the caretaker Punjab Government reversed the status of District in February 2023. The Lahore High Court struck down the move after which the additional charge of the Deputy Commissioner was given to the Rawalpindi Deputy Commissioner.

In September 2023, the Punjab Government posted a Deputy Commissioner in Murree. Agha Zaheer Abbas Sherazi was posted as the second ever Deputy Commissioner on 26 September 2023. The elected government post February 2024 elections decided to stick with the upgraded status of Murree considering its pivotal importance for the tourism industry.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shirazi |first=Qaiser |date=2023-09-28 |title=Murree, Talagang regain district status |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2438158/murree-talagang-regain-district-status |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=The Express Tribune |language=en}}</ref>

In August 2024, following Murree’s elevation to full district status, the Punjab government made history with two key police appointments, marking significant firsts for the area. Asif Amin Awan  was appointed as the District Police Officer (DPO) of Murree. He is the second-ever person to hold that post since the district's creation. Mughees Ahmad Hashmi  became the first-ever Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) of Murree, reflecting the government’s initiative to manage traffic more robustly in the growing tourist spot. This move came amid concerns over public order during Independence Day protests and was described as a permanent posting aimed at strengthening law and traffic management in the newly formed district<ref>{{Cite web |last=Asghar |first=Mohammad |date=2024-08-21 |title=First DPO, CTO named for Murree |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1853646 |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=DAWN.COM |language=en}}</ref>

{{clear}}
Localities and union councils of the Murree area:
{{div col|colwidth=10em}}
*[[Bhurban]]
*[[Dewal]]
*[[Darya Gali]]
*[[Gulehra Gali]]
*[[Ghora Gali]]
*[[Jhika Gali]]
*[[Mohra Sharif]]
*[[Potha Sharif]]
*[[Sehr Bagla]]
*[[Patriata]]
*[[Phagwari]]
*[[Numbal]]
*[[Mussiari]]
{{div col end}}

==Military==
For administrative purposes in the Rawalpindi zone, the military areas of Murree are divided into two separate [[cantonment]]s; Murree Hills Cantonment and Murree Galis (Kalabagh) Cantonment.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cantonment Boards |url=https://mlc.gov.pk/cantonment-boards |website=mlc.gov.pk |publisher=[[Military Lands and Cantonments Department]] – Ministry of Defence, Government of Pakistan |access-date=6 May 2025}}</ref> Murree houses the headquarters of the [[12th Infantry Division (Pakistan)|12th Infantry Division]] of the [[Pakistan Army]], several educational and training institutions, and a [[Combined Military Hospitals|combined military hospital]] established to serve Murree and adjoining garrisons.

The [[Pakistan Air Force]] also maintains a base at Lower Topa, near [[Patriata]], with its own military boarding school for boys, [[PAF Public School Lower Topa]].

During the British Raj, in the hot season Murree was the headquarters of the Lieutenant General of the [[Northern Command (India)|Northern Command]]. The Commissioner of the Rawalpindi Division and the Deputy Commissioner of Rawalpindi also resided here during part of the season, for which period an Assistant Commissioner was placed in charge of the subdivision consisting of Murree Tehsil. The site was selected in 1850 almost immediately after the annexation of the province, and building operations commenced at once. In 1851 temporary accommodation was provided for a detachment of troops; and in 1853 permanent barracks were erected. The regular garrison generally consisted of two mountain batteries and one battalion of infantry.

==Notable people==<!--[Please only add name of notable personalities who were born in the city by date of birth]-->

===Current===
<!-- Please order alphabetically -->
*[[Ansar Abbasi]], columnist and journalist 
*[[Francis Younghusband]], explorer
*[[Jonathan Addleton]],{{sfn|Crossette|1998|p=9}} American diplomat and author
*[[Kashif Abbasi]], journalist and anchor person 
*[[Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi]], former justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a former justice of Lahore High Court
*[[Muhammad Waseem (cricketer)]]
*[[Parikshit Sahni]], Indian actor
*[[Sadia Abbasi]], politician
*[[Shahid Khaqan Abbasi]], former Prime Minister of Pakistan
*[[Zafar Mahmood Abbasi]], Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) of the Pakistan

===Deceased===
<!-- Please order by date of death -->
*[[Reginald Dyer]] (1864–1927), British Army officer
*[[Gerald Lathbury]] (1906–1978), British Army officer
*[[Muhammad Riaz Khan Abbasi]] (d. 1979), Director-General of the [[Inter-Services Intelligence]] (ISI)
*[[Khaqan Abbasi]] (d. 1988), politician
*[[Harold Hall (civil servant)|Harold Hall]] (1913–2004), cricketer and British civil servant
*[[Muztar Abbasi]] (1960-2004)
*[[Raja Ashfaq Sarwar]] (1954–2020), politician
*[[Pushpinder Singh Chopra]] (1943-2021), aviation expert

==Sister cities==
*[[Dujiangyan City]], China<ref>{{cite news |title=China's Dujiangyan to be Murree's sister city |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1072118-china-s-dujiangyan-to-be-murree-s-sister-city |access-date=25 April 2025 |work=[[The News International]] |date=20 May 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Imperial Gazetteer of India|volume=18|page=42|title=Murree Town|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|year=1909|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_048.gif|access-date=2021-10-16|ref={{SfnRef|Imperial Gazetteer of India|1909}}}}
*{{cite book |last1=Crossette |first1=Barbara |author-link=Barbara Crossette |title=The Great Hill Stations of Asia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TY_iAAAAMAAJ |date=1998 |publisher=Westview Press |location=Boulder |isbn=978-08-13-33326-7 |pages=22–42}}
*{{cite book |last1=Gibson |first1=Alexandra L. |title=Working-Class Raj: Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India |date=2023 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-10-09-35658-9 |chapter=Military Domesticity: Creating Working-Class Worlds in British India |pages=76, 82–85 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tfbEAAAQBAJ |doi=10.1017/9781009356565.004}}
*{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Dane |title=The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj |year=1996 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=978-05-20-20188-0 |url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft396nb1sf;brand=ucpress}}
* {{cite book|first=Harold|last=Lee|title=Brothers in the Raj: The Lives of John and Henry Lawrence|location=Karachi|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2001|isbn=0-19-579415-X}}

'''Attribution:'''
* {{EB1911 |wstitle=Murree |volume=19 |pages=42–43}}

==External links==
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{{Wikivoyage|Murree}}
*{{cite web |title=Murree |publisher=Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab |url=https://tdcp.gop.pk/?page_id=1063 |website=tdcp.gop.pk}}
*{{cite web |title=Murree and Galliat |url=https://tourism.punjab.gov.pk/murree-and-gallies |publisher=Tourism, Archaeology and Museums Department – Government of Punjab}}

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[[Category:Murree| ]]
[[Category:Cantonments of Pakistan]]
[[Category:Galyat of Pakistan]]
[[Category:Populated places in Murree District]]
[[Category:Populated places in Murree Tehsil]]
[[Category:Hill stations in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Resorts in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Tourism in Punjab, Pakistan]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Punjab, Pakistan]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1851]]
[[Category:1851 establishments in British India]]
[[Category:Murree District]]