It is a district headquarters situated on Jalandhar-jammu railway line and is connected by road with Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Talwara, Gurdaspur and Pathankot.

The Mukerian city is a marks the easternmost border of Alexander the Great's conquests in 326 BCE at banks of bias river.

Alexander shut himself in his tent for three days, but when his men did not change their desires he gave in, raising twelve colossal altars to mark the limit and glory of his expedition.

And other history about the name of city is the Local tradition goes that Chaudhry Dara Khan of Awan Caste in 1216 A.

Another tradition relates that the city was named after one Mukeria Kalal and with the passage of time it was corrupted to Mukerian.