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Pakpattan District

Coordinates: 30°18′N 73°16′E / 30.300°N 73.267°E / 30.300; 73.267
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Pakpattan District
ضلع پاکپتّن
District of Punjab
Top: Mosque at shrine of Fariduddin Ganjshakar
Bottom: Tibbi Lal Baig
Location of Pakpattan in Punjab.
Location of Pakpattan in Punjab.
Country Pakistan
Province Punjab
DivisionSahiwal
HeadquartersPakpattan
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • Deputy CommissionerN/A
 • District Police OfficerN/A
 • District Health OfficerN/A
Area
 • District of Punjab
2,724 km2 (1,052 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[1]
 • District of Punjab
2,136,170
 • Density780/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
 • Urban
472,575
 • Rural
1,663,595
Literacy
[2]
 • Literacy rate
  • Total:
    (57.13%)
  • Male:
    (64.70%)
  • Female:
    (49.27%)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Area code0457
Number of Tehsils2
Websitepakpattan.punjab.gov.pk

Pakpattan District (Punjabi and Punjabi: ضلع پاکپتّن), is a district of Punjab province in Pakistan, Pakpattan city is the district capital.

Administrative division

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The district is divided into two tehsils, which contain a total of 63 Union Councils:[3]

Tehsil[4] Area

(km²)[5]

Pop.

(2023)

Density

(ppl/km²)

(2023)

Literacy rate

(2023)[6]

Union Councils
Arifwala[3] 1,241 999,278 805.22 58.24% 33
Pakpattan[3] 1,483 1,136,892 766.62 56.11% 30

Location

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The capital Pakpattan is located about 169 km from Lahore and 205 km from Multan. The district is bounded to the northwest by Sahiwal District, to the north by Okara District, to the southeast by the Sutlej River and Bahawalnagar District, and to the southwest by Vehari District.

Demographics

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Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1951 380,678—    
1961 440,091+1.46%
1972 615,742+3.10%
1981 843,623+3.56%
1998 1,286,680+2.51%
2017 1,824,228+1.85%
2023 2,136,170+2.67%
Sources:[7]

As of the 2023 census, Pakpattan district has 344,546 households and a population of 2,136,170. The district has a sex ratio of 103.30 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 57.13%: 64.70% for males and 49.27% for females.[1][8] 613,557 (28.73% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age.[9] 472,575 (22.12%) live in urban areas.[1]

Religion in Pakpattan district (2023)[10]
Religion Percent
Islam
 
 99.49%
Christianity
 
 0.50%
Other or not stated
 
 0.01%
Religion in Pakpattan District
Religion 1941[11]: 42 [a] 2017[12] 2023[10]
Pop. % Pop. % Pop. %
Islam 214,966 64.46% 1,818,324 99.68% 2,124,641 99.49%
Hinduism [b] 61,197 18.35% 97 0.01% 61 0%
Sikhism 54,047 16.21% — — 22 0%
Christianity 3,234 0.97% 5,741 0.31% 10,655 0.50%
Ahmadi — — 58 0% 51 0%
Others[c] 31 0.01% 8 0% 81 0%
Total Population 333,475 100% 1,824,228 100% 2,135,511 100%
Languages of Pakpattan district (2023)[13]
  1. Punjabi (95.42%)
  2. Urdu (3.5%)
  3. Others (1.08%)

At the time of the 2023 census, 95.42% of the population spoke Punjabi and 3.50% Urdu as their first language.[13]

According to the 1998 census, the predominant first language[14] is Punjabi, spoken by 95.9% of the population, followed by Urdu with 3.7%.[15]: 17 Haryanvi, also called Rangari, is spoken among Ranghar, Rajput, while the Meo have their own language which is called Mewati.

Villages

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ 1941 figures are for Pakpattan tehsil of the former Montgomery District, which roughly corresponds to present-day Okara district.Historic district borders may not be an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.
  2. ^ 1941 census: Including Ad-Dharmis
  3. ^ Including Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, or not stated

References

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  1. ^ a b c "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 1" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  2. ^ "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  3. ^ a b c "Tehsils & Unions in the District of Pakpattan". National Reconstruction Bureau, Government of Pakistan website. Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  4. ^ Divisions/Districts of Pakistan Archived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Note: Although divisions as an administrative structure has been abolished, the election commission of Pakistan still groups districts under the division names
  5. ^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).
  6. ^ "LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  7. ^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  8. ^ "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 12" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  9. ^ "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 5" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  10. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 9" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  11. ^ "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME VI PUNJAB PROVINCE". Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  12. ^ "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  13. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 11" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  14. ^ "Mother tongue": defined as the language of communication between parents and children, and recorded of each individual.
  15. ^ 1998 District Census report of Pakpattan. Census publication. Vol. 52. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 1999.
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30°18′N 73°16′E / 30.300°N 73.267°E / 30.300; 73.267

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