- PROVINCE
- Punjab
- DIVISION
- Lahore DivisionDigit 2 of the prefix — 5
- DISTRICT
- Lahore District
- TEHSILS
- 5Lahore City · Lahore Cantt · Model Town · Raiwind · Shalimar
What 352 tells you
A Pakistani CNIC is thirteen digits long, and the first five of them are not random. They are a location record, written at the moment the card was registered. A card whose number opens with 352 was registered in Lahore District, Punjab, in Lahore Division.
Reading it left to right: 3 is the province digit and is definitive — 3 always means Punjab. 5 selects the division inside that province, here Lahore Division. 2 selects the district inside that division, which gives us Lahore. The two digits that follow — positions four and five — narrow it further to a local registration zone inside the district.
TEHSILS OF LAHORE
Lahore District is divided into 5 administrative tehsils. NADRA’s internal registration zones do not map one-to-one onto tehsil boundaries, so treat this as the administrative picture rather than a decoder for digits four and five.
| # | Tehsil | District | Province |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lahore City | Lahore | Punjab |
| 2 | Lahore Cantt | Lahore | Punjab |
| 3 | Model Town | Lahore | Punjab |
| 4 | Raiwind | Lahore | Punjab |
| 5 | Shalimar | Lahore | Punjab |
DOCUMENTED LOCAL ZONES UNDER 352
These are the five-digit codes this register can name for Lahore District. Codes not listed here still exist — NADRA has simply never published the full zone table.
OTHER DISTRICTS IN LAHORE DIVISION
COMMON QUESTIONS
Which district is CNIC code 352?
352 belongs to Lahore District in Punjab, within Lahore Division.
Digit 1 (3) is the province, digit 2 (5) the division, and digit 3 (2) the district within that division.
Does a 352 CNIC mean the holder lives in Lahore?
No. The regional prefix records where the card was registered with NADRA, not where the holder lives now. People who move, or who register at a family address, keep the original prefix.
It is also not proof of domicile. Domicile is a separate certificate issued by the district administration.
Which tehsils fall under Lahore District?
Lahore District covers 5 administrative tehsils: Lahore City, Lahore Cantt, Model Town, Raiwind, Shalimar.
Tehsil boundaries and NADRA's internal registration zones are not the same thing, so the last two digits of a CNIC do not map one-to-one onto this list.
What comes after 352 in a full CNIC?
A complete CNIC is thirteen digits: the five-digit regional prefix, then a seven-digit family/serial number, then a single check digit that also encodes gender (odd for male, even for female).
For Lahore, this register documents 2 local-zone codes: 35201, 35202.
How reliable is the code 352?
352 is a documented anchor code — it appears consistently in public records and published examples, so the district mapping is solid.
NADRA has never released a complete district-to-prefix table, which is why this register marks every entry as either a documented anchor or a derived code.
KEEP LOOKING
Sources. Administrative data adapted from Wikipedia (CNIC, Administrative units of Pakistan, Districts of Pakistan) under CC BY-SA 4.0, with changes; prefix mapping cross-checked against public administrative and community-compiled lists. Reviewed 2026-09-02. Full sources, accuracy and ethics. Unofficial reference — not affiliated with NADRA, and not proof of identity or domicile.