Chakwal Tehsil

Chakwal Tehsil
**تحصِيل چکوال**‬
Chakwal Tehsil ; تحصِيل چکوال‬
	Tehsil
Country	Pakistan
Region	Punjab
District	Chakwal District
Capital	Chakwal
Towns	1
District Council	Chakwal
No. of Union Councils	30; (5 urban+; 25 rural)
Area
• Tehsil	3,120 km2 (1,200 sq mi)
Population (1998)
• Tehsil	490,000
• Estimate (December 31, 2016)	634,000
• Density	160/km2 (410/sq mi)
• Urban	104,000
• Rural	530,000
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (PDT)
Website	TMA Chakwal

Last updated March 19, 2019

Chakwal Tehsil (Urdu : تحصِيل چکوال‬‎), is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Chakwal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The tehsil is subdivided into 30 Union Councils - five of which form the capital Chakwal.^[1] During British rule the tehsil was part of Jhelum District, according to the 1901 census the population was 160,316 compared to 164,912 in 1891. At the time the tehsil contained 248 villages.^[2]

A tehsil is an administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is an area of land with a city or town that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. The terms in India have replaced earlier geographical terms, such as pargana, pergunnah and thannah, used under Delhi Sultanate and the British Raj.

Chakwal District is in Pothohar Plateau of Punjab, Pakistan. It is located in the north of the Punjab province, Chakwal district is bordered by Khushab to its south, Rawalpindi to its north east, Jhelum to its east, Mianwali to its west and Attock to its north west. The district was created out of parts of Jhelum and Attock in 1985.

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the world’s sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212,742,631 people. In area, it is the 33rd-largest country, spanning 881,913 square kilometres. Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China in the far northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.

Union Council	Population ( Thousand Persons)
Name Of Union Council & Its Population (1998)
Chakwal City-1	15475
Chakwal City-2	16172
Chakwal City-3	14909
Chakwal City-4	17302
Chakwal City-5	16650
Mureed	15971
Odherwal	18973
Karyala	16212
Dab	21397
Balkassar	20408
Dhudial	13682
Saral	15253
Mangwal	17245
Chak Umra	17288
Padshahan	15760
Chak Malook	19888
Bheen	10050
Balkassar	19866
Warwal	14097
Dullah	14859
Begal	15149
Kot Chaudhrian	15429
Karsal	11991
Jand	16413
Mulhal Mughlan	19390
Jandkhan Zada	11366
Dumman	9842
Khotian (Sehgalabad)	18755
Choa Ganj Ali Shah	12225
Jaswal	14186

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References

↑ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Chakwal - Government of Pakistan Archived January 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine .
↑ Chakwāl Tahsīl - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 10, p. 126.

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[1] Tehsils & Unions in the District of Chakwal - Government of Pakistan Archived January 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine .

[2] Chakwāl Tahsīl - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 10, p. 126.