It is bordered by Himachal Pradesh to the north and Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district to its west.

Some of the important exhibits include antiquities of Harappan times, gold coins of Chandragupta and copper and bronze implements.

[9] Later in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Cis-Sutlej invasions in the early 1800s, he established Jagirs in the area including Mianpur and others.

[10] In 1831, Ropar was under a Sikh chieftain, Bhup Singh, who had pledged his allegiance to the East India Company.

Ropar shot into prominence when it was chosen as the venue for the meeting between Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Sikh Empire and Lord William Bentinck, the Governor-General appointed by the Company.

The climate of Rupnagar is characterized by general dryness (except in the south west monsoon season), a hot summer and a cold winter.

Also called the Rupnagar Lake, the wetland developed consequent to the construction of a regulator on the Sutlej River.

This important ecological zone is located in the Shivalik foothills of the Lower Himalayas and was created in 1952 on the Sutlej River, in the Punjab state of India, by building a head regulator.

[29] Rupnagar houses the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar which is spread over 525 acres in the banks of Satulj,[30] the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bhaddal,[31] and Government College, Ropar[32] (affiliated to Punjabi University, Patiala[33]).Ropar is an education hub for local villages.