Yazman Tehsil

Yazman (Urdu: تحصیل یزمان) is a tehsil located in Bahawalpur District, Punjab, Pakistan. The city of Yazman is the headquarters of the tehsil which is administratively subdivided into 18 Union Councils. With an area of 19,160 km square, it is the largest tehsil of the Punjab province.^[3]

Yazman Tehsil تحصیل یزمان
Tehsil
Tehsil Municipal Administration logo
Location of Yazman Tehsil in Punjab, Pakistan
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
District	Bahawalpur
Capital	Yazman
Government [1]
• Type	Tehsil Municipal Administration
• Administrator	Shakeel Ahmad
• Municipal Officer	Muhammad Aslam Khan Khambrra
Area
• Tehsil	19,160 km2 (7,400 sq mi)
Population  (2017)[2]
• Tehsil	614,143
• Urban	48,976
• Rural	565,167
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
Number of Union Councils	18
Website	TMA Yazman

Demographics

Languages of Yazman Tehsil (2023)^[4]

  Punjabi (57.44%)

  Saraiki (35.90%)

  Hindko (2.54%)

  Others (4.12%)

The major languages spoken in the Yazman Tehsil are Punjabi, Saraiki and Hindko.^[4]

References

1. "TMA Yazman: Administrative Setup". Local Government Punjab. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
2. "DISTRICT AND TEHSIL LEVEL POPULATION SUMMARY WITH REGION BREAKUP: PUNJAB" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2018-01-03. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
3. Tehsils & Unions in the District of Bahawalpur
4. "Population by Mother Tongue, Sex and Rural/Urban, Census-2023" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2023. Retrieved 2 Aug 2024.

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