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A cantonment (, , or ) is a type of

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. In

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, a ''cantonment'' refers to a permanent military station (a term from the

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). In

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parlance, a cantonment is, essentially, "a permanent residential section (i.e., barrack) of a fort or other military installation". The word ''cantonment'', derived from the French word '' canton'', meaning ''corner'' or ''district'', refers to a temporary military or winter encampment. For example, at the start of the

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in 1815, while the

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's headquarters were in Brussels, most of his Anglo–allied army of 93,000 soldiers were ''cantoned'', or stationed, to the south of Brussels.

List of permanent cantonments

Afghanistan

The former Sherpur Cantonment in

Kabul Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province. The city is divided for administration into #Districts, 22 municipal districts. A ...

, Afghanistan, which was the site of the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment (1879) in the

Second Anglo-Afghan War The Second Anglo-Afghan War (Dari: جنگ دوم افغان و انگلیس, ) was a military conflict fought between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the latter was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dy ...

(1878–1880), is now maintained as a British Army cemetery.

Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, cantonments are residential quarters for many military personnel as well as headquarters for different army units. A wide variety of military training is provided in Bangladesh cantonments: * Alikadam Cantonment,

Bandarban Bandarban is a small town in Chittagong Division, Bangladesh. It is the headquarters of Bandarban District. It is located on the Sangu River. Demographics According to the 2022 Bangladesh census, Bandarban city had a population of 54,450 and ...

* Bandarban Cantonment,

* Chittagong Cantonment, Chittagong * Comilla Cantonment,

Comilla Comilla (), officially spelled Cumilla, is a metropolis on the banks of the Gomti River in eastern Bangladesh. Comilla was one of the cities of ancient Bengal. It was once the capital of Tripura kingdom. Comilla Airport is located in the Duli ...

Dhaka Cantonment Dhaka Cantonment () is a cantonment located in the northern part of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The headquarters of the Bangladesh Army and Air Force are situated within the cantonment. The cantonment is located on the north-east end of Dhaka. History ...

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list o ...

* Dighinala Cantonment, Khagrachari * Mithamain Cantonment, Kishoreganj * Guimara Cantonment, Chittagong * Halishahar Cantonment, Chittagong * Jahanabad Cantonment,

Khulna Khulna (, ) is the third-largest city in Bangladesh, after Dhaka and Chittagong. It is the administrative centre of the Khulna District and the Khulna Division. It is the divisional centre of 10 districts of the division. Khulna is also the seco ...

* Jahangirabad Cantonment,

Bogra Bogra (), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, officially Bogura, is a city located in Bogra District, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh. The city is a major commercial hub in North Bengal, Northern Bangladesh. It is the second largest city in te ...

* Jalalabad Cantonment,

Sylhet Sylhet (; ) is a Metropolis, metropolitan city in the north eastern region of Bangladesh. It serves as the administrative center for both the Sylhet District and the Sylhet Division. The city is situated on the banks of the Surma River and, as o ...

* Jamuna Cantonment,

Tangail Tangail (, ) is a city of Tangail District in central Bangladesh. A significant city in Bangladesh, Tangail lies on the bank of the Louhajang River, northwest of Dhaka, the nation's capital. Etymology ''Tangail'' originates from the Beng ...

* Jessore Cantonment,

Jessore Jessore (, ), officially Jashore, is a city of Jessore District in Khulna Division. It lies in southwestern Bangladesh. It is home to the first flight training school of the Bangladeshi Air Force, established in 1971. Jessore city consists of 9 wa ...

* Kaptai Cantonment, Kaptai * Khagrachari Cantonment, Khagrachari * Kholahati Cantonment,

Dinajpur Dinajpur ( ) is a city and the district headquarters of Dinajpur district situated in Rangpur Division, Bangladesh. It was founded in 1786. It is located 413 km north-west of Dhaka. It is bounded on the north by Suihari, Katapara, Bangi ...

* Lalmonirhat Cantonment, Lalmonirhat * Barisal Cantonment,

Barisal Barisal ( or ; , ), officially known as Barishal, is a major city that lies on the banks of the Kirtankhola river in south-central Bangladesh. It is the largest city and the administrative headquarter of both Barisal District and Barisal Divi ...

* Majhira Cantonment, Bogra * Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka * Mymensingh Cantonment,

Mymensingh Mymensingh () is a metropolis, metropolitan city and capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh. Located on the bank of the Old Brahmaputra River, Brahmaputra River, about north of the national capital Dhaka, it is a major financial center ...

* Padma Cantonment, Shariatpur * Postogola Cantonment, Dhaka * Qadirabad Cantonment,

Natore Natore is a city ("town" in some sources) in western Bangladesh. It is the headquarters of the Natore District. Its current administrator is Asha Khatun. The Narod river is passing through the center of the city with pollution from upstream industr ...

* Rajendrapur Cantonment, Gazipur * Rajshahi Cantonment,

Rajshahi Rajshahi (, ) is a metropolis, metropolitan city and a major Urban area, urban, administrative, commercial and educational centre of Bangladesh. It is also the administrative seat of the eponymous Rajshahi Division, division and Rajshahi Distr ...

* Ramu Cantonment, Cox's Bazar * Rangamati Cantonment, Rangamati * Rangpur Cantonment, Rangpur * Saidpur Cantonment, Nilphamari * Savar Cantonment, Dhaka * Shahid Salahuddin Cantonment, Ghatail * Sylhet Cantonment, Sylhet

India

Several cities in the

Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. It is now divided between Bangladesh, India, and Pakista ...

, including

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ), also spelled Amdavad (), is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 ...

Ambala Ambala () is a city and a municipal corporation in Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India, located on the border with the Indian state of Punjab (India), Punjab and in proximity to both states capital Chandigarh. Politically, Ambala ...

Bellary Ballari (formerly Bellary) is a city in the Ballari district in state of Karnataka, India. Ballari houses many steel plants such as JSW Vijayanagar, one of the largest in Asia. Ballari district is also known as the ‘Steel city of South Ind ...

Belgaum Belgaum (Kannada ISO 15919, ISO: ''Bēḷagāma'', ), officially known as Belagavi (also Belgaon), is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka located near its northern western border in the Western Ghats. It is the administrative headquarters ...

Bangalore Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...

, Danapur,

Jabalpur Jabalpur, formerly Jubbulpore, is a city situated on the banks of Narmada River in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is the 3rd-largest urban agglomeration of the state and the 38th-largest of the country. Jabalpur is the administrative h ...

Kanpur Kanpur (Hindustani language, Hindustani: ), originally named Kanhapur and formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is the second largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh after Lucknow. It was the primary ...

Bathinda Bathinda is a city and municipal corporation in Punjab, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of Bathinda district. It is located in northwestern India in the Malwa Region, west of the capital city of Chandigarh and is the fifth ...

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its Bank (geography ...

, Nilgiris,

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12 ...

Pune Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western ...

Meerut Meerut (, ISO 15919, ISO: ''Mēraṭh'') is a city in the western region of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Located in the Meerut district, it is northeast of the national capital, New Delhi, and is ...

, Ramgarh,

Secunderabad Secunderabad () is a twin cities, twin city of Hyderabad and one of the six zones of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Telangana. It is the headquarters of the South ...

, and

Trichy Tiruchirappalli (), also known as Trichy, is a major tier II city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli district. The city is credited with being the best livable and the cleanest city of T ...

, contained large cantonments of the former

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, with

and Ramgarh being two of the most important cantonments in

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, second only to the headquarters at Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan). Meerut was established in 1803, and for 150 years was the largest cantonment in the region. Although cantonments in India were considered to be semi-permanent in the 18th and 19th centuries, by the turn of the 20th century, they had transitioned to being permanent garrisons. They were further entrenched as such, via the military reforms of Lord Kitchener in 1903, and the Cantonments Act of 1924. At India's Independence in 1947, India had 56 cantonments. After this India added 6 cantonments the last being Ajmer Cantonment in 1962, taking the total number to 62. They covered an area of . As of 2019, there were sixty-one "notified cantonments" in India, occupying an area of : twenty-five in Central Command, nineteen in Southern Command, thirteen in Western Command, four in Eastern Command, and one in Northern Command. On 24 July 2024, a press release notified that, in order to move on from older Colonial-era concepts, Ministry of Defence has decided to give up responsibility to consider to excise civil areas of certain Cantonments and merge them with neighbouring State municipalities. As of then, there were 58 Cantonments of which 10 were to be handed over in the first phase. The administration of civil areas was to be handed over from Cantonment Boards to the neighbouring

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while the military region was to remain with the Armed Forces. However, on 27 April 2024, KhasYol had become the first cantonment board to be "de-notified". On 2 September 2024, it was reported that paperwork are being completed to handover civilian areas of Cantonments from the Indian Army. The Cantonments include Dehradun, Deolali, Nasirabad, Babina, Ajmer, Ramgarh, Mathura, Shahjahanpur, Clement Town and Fatehgarh. The report sain, "Indian Army's Central Command, South Western Command and Southern Command are in the process of completing the hand over exercise in coordination with

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand (, ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2007), is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. The state is bordered by Himachal Pradesh to the n ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; Literal translation, lit. 'Land of Kings') is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the List of states and union territories of ...

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north ...

and

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

governments." Major cantonments and garrisons include the following:

Notified cantonments

# Central Command ## Agra Cantonment,

## Almora Cantonment,

## Ayodhya Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh ## Bareilly Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh ## Chakrata Cantonment, Uttarakhand ## Clement Town Cantonment, Uttarakhand (To be denotified) ## Danapur Cantonment,

Bihar Bihar ( ) is a states and union territories of India, state in Eastern India. It is the list of states and union territories of India by population, second largest state by population, the List of states and union territories of India by are ...

Dehradun Cantonment Dehradun Cantonment is a cantonment town in Dehradun district in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It was established in 1913. Demographics India census, Dehradun Cantonment had a population of 30,102. Males constitute 52% of the population an ...

, Uttarakhand (To be denotified) ## Fatehgarh Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh (To be denotified) ## Gopalpur Cantonment,

Odisha Odisha (), formerly Orissa (List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2011), is a States and union territories of India, state located in East India, Eastern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by ar ...

## Jabalpur Cantonment,

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...

## Kanpur Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh ## Landour Cantonment, Uttarakhand ## Lansdowne Cantonment, Uttarakhand ##

Lucknow Lucknow () is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and the largest city of the List of state and union territory capitals in India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the epon ...

Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh ## Mathura Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh (To be denotified) ## Meerut Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh ## Mhow Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh ## Nainital Cantonment, Uttarakhand ## Pachmarhi Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh ## Prayagraj Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh ## Ramgarh Cantonment,

(To be denotified) ## Ranikhet Cantonment, Uttarakhand ## Roorkee Cantonment, Uttarakhand ## Shahajahanpur Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh (To be denotified) ## Varanasi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh # Southern Command ## Ahmedabad Cantonment,

Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...

## Ahmednagar Cantonment,

## Ajmer Cantonment,

(To be denotified) ## Aurangabad Cantonment, Maharashtra ## Babina Cantonment, Jhansi,

(To be denotified) ## Belgaum Cantonment,

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

## Bellary Cantonment, Karnataka (Inactive, De-notified) ## Dehu Road Cantonment, Maharashtra ## Deolali Cantonment, Maharashtra (To be denotified) ## Jhansi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh ## Kamptee Cantonment, Maharashtra ## Kannur Cantonment,

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

## Kirkee Cantonment, Maharashtra ## Morar Cantonment,

Gwalior Gwalior (Hindi: , ) is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; It is known as the Music City of India having oldest Gwalior gharana, musical gharana in existence. It is a major sports, cultural, industrial, and political c ...

## Nasirabad Cantonment, Rajasthan (To be denotified) ## Pune Cantonment, Maharashtra ## Sagar Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh ##

Cantonment,

Telangana Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ele ...

## St. Thomas Mount Cantonment, Chennai,

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. The List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of Indi ...

## Wellington Cantonment, Tamil Nadu # Western Command ##

Ambala Cantonment Ambala Cantonment is a cantonment town in Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India. It is 200 km north of Delhi and 55 km southwest of Chandigarh. This cantonment was established in the year 1843 and is an important centre for m ...

Haryana Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...

## Amritsar Cantonment,

Punjab Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...

## Bakloh Cantonment,

Chamba District Chamba district is the northwestern district of Himachal Pradesh, in India, with its headquarters in Chamba town. The towns of Dalhousie, Khajjhiar and Churah Valley are popular hill stations and vacation spots for the people from the plains ...

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; Sanskrit: ''himācāl prādes;'' "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a States and union territories of India, state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen Indian Himalayan ...

## Dagshai Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh ## Dalhousie Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh ## Delhi Cantonment, Delhi ## Ferozepur Cantonment, Punjab ## Jalandhar Cantonment, Punjab ## Jammu Cantonment, Jammu and Kashmir ## Jutogh Cantonment, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh ##

Kasauli Kasauli is a town and cantonment, located in the Solan district of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The cantonment was established by the British Raj in 1842 as a Colonial hill station,Sharma, Ambika"Architecture of Kasauli churches" ''The ...

Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh ## Subathu Cantonment, Shimla Hills, Himachal Pradesh ## KhasYol Cantonment, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh (de-notified on 2023) # Eastern Command ##

Barrackpore Barrackpore (), also known as Barrackpore,is a city and municipality in North 24 Parganas district in the India, Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Barrackpore subdivision. The city is a part of the area covered by Ko ...

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

## Dum Dum Cantonment, West Bengal (Inactive, De-notified) ## Jalapahar,

Darjeeling Darjeeling (, , ) is a city in the northernmost region of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of West Bengal. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it has an average elevation of . To the west of Darjeeling lies the Koshi Pr ...

, West Bengal ## Lebong, Darjeeling, West Bengal ##

Shillong Shillong (, ) is a hill station and the capital of Meghalaya, a Indian state, state in northeastern India. It is the headquarters of the East Khasi Hills district. Shillong is the list of most populous cities in India, 330th most populous city ...

Cantonment,

Meghalaya Meghalaya (; "the abode of clouds") is a states and union territories of India, state in northeast India. Its capital is Shillong. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 by carving out two districts from the Assam: the United Khasi Hills an ...

# Northern Command ## Badamibagh Cantonment, Jammu and Kashmir

Unlisted military cantonments

# Abohar Cantonment (Abohar, Punjab) # Akhnoor Cantonment (Akhnoor, Jammu and Kashmir) # Baddowal Cantonment (Ludhiana, Punjab) #

Bangalore Cantonment The Bangalore Cantonment (1806–1881) was a military cantonment of the British Raj based in the Indian city of Bangalore. The cantonment covered an area of , extending from the Residency on the west to Binnamangala on the east and from the T ...

(Bangalore, Karnataka) # Bikaner Cantonment (Bikaner, Rajasthan) # Bharatpur Cantonment (Rajasthan) # Bhatinda Cantonment (Bhatinda, Punjab) # Binnaguri Cantonment (West Bengal) # Bhuj Cantonment (Bhuj, Gujarat) # Bhopal Cantonment (Madhya Pradesh) # Bhubaneswar cantonment (Bhubaneswar, Odisha) # Beas Military Station (Punjab) # Chandimandir Cantonment (Chandigarh) # Dipatoli Cantonment (Ranchi, Jharkhand) # Faridkot Cantonment (Faridkot, Punjab) # Fazilka Cantonment (Fazilka, Punjab) # Gandhinagar Cantonment (Gandhinagar, Gujarat) # Gopalpur Cantonment (Brahmapur, Orissa) # Hisar Cantonment (Hisar, Haryana) # Itarana Cantonment (Alwar, Rajasthan) # Jaipur Cantonment (Jaipur, Rajasthan) # Jaisalmer Cantonment (Jaisalmer, Rajasthan) # Jodhpur Cantonment (Rajasthan) # Joshimath Cantonment (Joshimath, Uttarakhand) # Kapurthala Cantonment (Kapurthala, Punjab) # Khasa Cantonment (Amritsar, Punjab) # Kollam Cantonment (Kollam, India) # Ludhiana Cantonment (Punjab) # Mamun Cantonment (Pathankot, Punjab) # Missamari Cantonment (Missamari, Assam) # Nagrota Cantonment (Nagrota, Jammu & Kashmir) # Narengi Cantonment (Guwahati, Assam) # Pathankot Cantonment (Pathankot, Punjab) # Patiala Cantonment (Punjab) # Pithoragarh Cantonment (Pithoragarh , Uttarakhand) # Shahjahanpur Cantonment (Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh) # Solmara Cantonment (Tezpur, Assam) # Sri Ganganagar Cantonment (Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan) # Suratgarh Cantonment (Suratgarh, Rajasthan) # Thiruvananthapuram Cantonment (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala) # Tibri Cantonment (Gurdaspur, Punjab) # Udhampur Cantonment (Udhampur, Jammu & Kashmir) # Udaipur Cantonment (Rajasthan) # Vadodra Cantonment (Vadodra, Gujarat) # Varanasi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command # Siliguri Cantonment(West Bengal) # Shillong Cantonment(Meghalaya)

Ghana

* Cantonments, Accra

Nigeria

Cantonments in Nigeria refer to permanent military installations which house active personnel and their families. Cantonments in Nigeria include: * Airforce Cantonment,

Ikeja Ikeja is the List of capitals of states of Nigeria, capital city of Lagos State in southwestern Nigeria. Its population, as of the 2006 census, is 313,196. Prior to the emergence of military rule in the early 1980s, Ikeja was a well planned, cl ...

, Lagos * Armed forces resettlement centre, Oshodi, Lagos * Army Ordnance Cantonment, (also known as Abalti Barracks), Yaba, Lagos * Arn Cantonment, Yaba, Lagos * Badagry Cantonment,

Badagry Badagry, also spelled Badagri, (Gun language, Gun: Gbagli) is a coastal town and Local Government Areas of Nigeria, Local Government Area (LGA) in Lagos State, Nigeria. It is quite close to the city of Lagos, and located on the north bank of Po ...

, Lagos * Dodan Cantonment,

Ikoyi Ikoyi is the most affluent neighborhood of Lagos, located in Eti-Osa Local Government Area. It lies to the northeast of Obalende and adjoins Lagos Island to the west, and at the edge of the Lagos Lagoon. Popular with the extreme upper class r ...

, Lagos * Ikeja Cantonment, Ikeja, Lagos * Marda Cantonment, Yaba, Lagos * Navy Town, Ojo, Lagos * Ojo Cantonment (also known as Palm Barracks), Ojo, Lagos, * Bonny Camp, Victoria Island * Jaji military cantonment, kaduna, * Dalet cantonment, kaduna, * Mogadishu cantonment, * Abiyssinia cantonment, * .Burma cantonment, * Adshanti cantonment, * Nigerian Defence Academy, Afaka, Kaduna

Pakistan

* Abbottabad Cantonment *

Attock Attock ( Punjabi, ), formerly known as Campbellpur (Punjabi, ), is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, not far from the country's capital Islamabad. It is the headquarters of the Attock District and is 36th largest city in the Punjab and 61st largest c ...

Cantonment * Allama Iqbal Cantonment *

Bannu Bannu (, ), also called Bani Gul or Bani (, ) is a city located on the Kurram River in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the capital of Bannu Division. Bannu's residents are primarily members of the Banuchi tribe and speak Banuch ...

Cantonment * Bhawalpur Cantonment * Chaklala Cantonment * Clifton Cantonment,

Karachi Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...

Dera Ismail Khan Dera Ismail Khan (; Urdu and , ), abbreviated as D.I. Khan, is a city and capital of Dera Ismail Khan District, located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 10th largest city of Pakistan and third or fourth largest in the province of Khy ...

Cantonment *

Faisal Cantonment The Faisal Cantonment () previously known as Drigh Road Cantonment is a cantonment town of the city of Karachi, in Sindh, Pakistan. It serves as a Pakistan Air Force base and residential establishment. History The PAF Base, a critical British ...

, Karachi *

Faisalabad Faisalabad, formerly known as Lyallpur, is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, second-largest city and primary List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, industrial center of the Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan ...

Cantonment *

Gujranwala Gujranwala is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, fourth most-populous city in the Pakistani province of Punjab. Located in northern-central Punjab's Rachna Doab, it serves as the headquarters of its Gujranwala District, epony ...

Cantonment *

Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

Cantonment * Jhelum Cantonment * Kamra Cantonment * Karachi Cantonment *

Kharian Cantonment Kharian Cantonment (Urdu: کھاریاں چھاؤنی۔), ( Punjabi: ) or Kharian Cantt is one of the largest cantonments (army bases) in Pakistan. It is located near Kharian city, in the Gujrat district of Punjab province. This cantonment ...

Khuzdar Khuzdar ( Balochi, , ) also known as ''Hozdar'', is a city and the administrative headquarters of Khuzdar District in Balochistan province of Pakistan. Khuzdar is surrounded by mountainous region of the southwestern portion of the country near ...

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Korangi Creek Cantonment Korangi Creek Cantonment or Korangi Cantonment () is a military cantonment in Korangi Town within Malir District of the city of Karachi, in Sindh, Pakistan. It serves as a military base and residential establishment. It was established by th ...

, Karachi *

Lahore Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...

Cantonment * Walton Cantonment: Created out of the southern parts of the original Lahore Cantt.,

Walton, Lahore Walton Cantonment is a cantonment area situated in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is named after Sir Cusach Walton, son of British railway engineer Frederick Walton. History Lahore Cantonment with its increasing population and extensions to the bo ...

* Loralai Cantonment *

Malir Cantonment The Malir Cantonment () is a cantonment town of the city of Karachi, in Sindh, Pakistan. It serves as a military base and residential establishment. History Declared a cantonment by the British Army, Royal British Government as POW Camp by M ...

, Karachi * Mangla Cantonment * Manora Cantonment, Karachi *

Mardan Mardān is a city in the Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Located in the Valley of Peshawar, Mardan is the List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, second-largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (after Peshawar). ...

Cantonment * Multan Cantonment *

Murree Murree () 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, it forms the outskirts of the Islamabad–Rawal ...

Cantonment * Nowshera Cantonment * Okara Cantonment * Ormara Cantonment * Pano Aqil Cantonment *

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

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Quetta Quetta is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan. It is the ninth largest city in Pakistan, with an estimated population of over 1.6 million in 2024. It is situated in the south-west of the country, lying in a ...

Cantonment * Rawalpindi Cantonment * Sanjwal Cantonment *

Sargodha Sargodha (Punjabi language, Punjabi/; ; ) is a city and capital of Sargodha Division, located in Central Punjab, central Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, Pakistan. It is Pakistan's List of most populous cities in Pakistan, 11th most populous city and ...

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Shorkot Shorkot (), (), is a city in Punjab (Pakistan) and serves as the capital of Shorkot Tehsil in Jhang District. The city is renowned for the tombs of several prominent Sufism, Sufi saints, including Sultan Bahoo, Syed Akbar Ali Shah Gilani, Syed ...

Cantonment (PAF Rafiqui) * Sialkot Cantonment *

Taxila Taxila or Takshashila () is a city in the Pothohar region of Punjab, Pakistan. Located in the Taxila Tehsil of Rawalpindi District, it lies approximately northwest of the Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area and is just south of the ...

Cantonment * Wah Cantonment * Zhob Cantonment

Singapore

In Singapore, the term is used to denote a police cantonment.

South Africa

* Thaba Tshwane

Sri Lanka

Panagoda Cantonment Panagoda Cantonment is a cantonment located in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. It serves as the regimental headquarters of many regiments of the Sri Lanka Army and is an arsenal. It also houses one of the main Military Hospitals operated by the ...

United States

The United States military commonly uses the term "cantonment" to describe the permanent facilities at U.S. Army training bases as opposed to the field training areas. Cantonment areas often include housing (such as barracks and maid-service quarters), dining facilities, training classrooms, exchanges, and paved air fields.

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