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Ghauri or Ghouri may refer to:
- Ghouri lake, a lake near Tabriz in East Azarbaijan province of Iran
- Ghur Gharbiyah, also called "Ghouri". A village in the Homs Governorate of Syria.
- Ghauri (strategic ballistic missile system), a Pakistani weapon system
- "The Ghauri Family", a The Simple Life episode
- Babar Khan Ghauri, a politician from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
- Dilawar Khan Ghauri, a governor of the Malwa province of central India during the decline of the Delhi Sultanate
- Mohammed Sultan Khan Ghauri, a biologist specialist of Homoptera
- Nadeem Ghauri (born 1962), a Pakistani Cricketer
- Sultan Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghauri (1162-1206), was a ruler of the Ghorid dynasty who reigned over a territory spanning present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
- Yasmeen Ghauri (born 1971), a Pakistani-Canadian supermodel
The Ghauri–I (; official codename: Hatf–5 Ghauri–I) is a land-based surface-to-surface medium-range ballistic missile, in current service with the Pakistan Army's Strategic Forces Command— a subordinate command of Strategic Plans Division.
Influenced from the design of Nodong-1 of North Korea, its extensive modification and engineering took place in Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) in 1990s with an objective of developing an electronic system that uses a single stage liquid fuel rocket motor to carry a payload of 700 kg to a range of 1,500 km. Two variants of the Ghauri were produced under the secretive missile research programme started in 1987 and the development of a third variant was cancelled. The Ghauri-II uses increased motor assembly length and improved propellants for an increased range of .
The missile is named after Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghauri, while the "Hatf" designation originates from the name of the sword or lance of Muhammad.