Popular tourist destinations are Fort Munro, Yakbai Hill station and Mubarki Top.

[10] Buddhist artifacts dating to the 1st to 3rd centuries CE have been found in Dillu Roy in Kot Chhutta tehsil.

[12] After the independence, many of the city's Hindu residents settled in Derawal Nagar colony of Delhi, India.

[14] As of the 2023 census, residual Dera Ghazi Khan district has 292,658 households and a population of 2,348,245.

Christians made up the largest minority (0.30%), followed by Ahmadis (0.07%) with Hindus and Sikhs making up the rest.