Pakpattan District
District in Punjab, Pakistan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pakpattan District (Punjabi and Punjabi: ضلع پاکپتّن), is a district of Punjab province in Pakistan, Pakpattan city is the district capital.
Pakpattan District
ضلع پاکپتّن | |
|---|---|
  Top: Mosque at shrine of Fariduddin Ganjshakar Bottom: Tibbi Lal Baig | |
 Location of Pakpattan in Punjab. | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Punjab |
| Division | Sahiwal |
| Headquarters | Pakpattan |
| Government | |
| • Type | District Administration |
| • Deputy Commissioner | N/A |
| • District Police Officer | N/A |
| • District Health Officer | N/A |
| Area | |
| 2,724 km2 (1,052 sq mi) | |
| Population | |
| 2,136,170 | |
| • Density | 780/km2 (2,000/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 472,575 |
| • Rural | 1,663,595 |
| Literacy | |
| • Literacy rate |
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| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Area code | 0457 |
| Number of Tehsils | 2 |
| Website | pakpattan |
Administrative division
The district is divided into two tehsils, which contain a total of 63 Union Councils:[3]
Location
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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Perspective
| Year | Pop. | ±% 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 | 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% |
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
See also
Notes
- 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.
- 1941 census: Including Ad-Dharmis
- Including Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, or not stated
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