Dera Ghazi Khan Tehsil

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Dera Ghazi Khan Tehsil


تحصِيل ڈيره غازى خان‬
Tehsil
Country Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan
Region Flag of Punjab.svg   Punjab
District Dera Ghazi Khan
Capital Dera Ghazi Khan
Towns1
Union councils41
Area
 • Tehsil1,457 km2 (563 sq mi)
Population
 • Tehsil1,226,612
 •  Urban
399,064
 •  Rural
827,548
Time zone UTC+5 (PST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+6 (PDT)

Dera Ghazi Khan (Urdu : تحصِيل ڈيره غازى خان‬‎), is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Dera Ghazi Khan District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The capital of the tehsil is Dera Ghazi Khan.

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.

Dera Ghazi Khan District District in Punjab, Pakistan

Dera Ghazi Khan is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Its capital is Dera Ghazi Khan city.

Pakistan federal parliamentary constitutional republic in South Asia

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.

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History

Dera Ghazi Khan Tehsil was created as a subdivision of Dera Ghazi Khan District during British rule. The population according to the 1901 census of India was 193,744, compared with 177,062 in 1891. [2]

British Raj British rule in the Indian subcontinent, 1858–1947

The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule in India, or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called British India or simply India in contemporaneous usage, and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and those ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British tutelage or paramountcy, and called the princely states. The whole was also informally called the Indian Empire. As India, it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.

Administration

The tehsil of Dera Ghazi Khan is administratively subdivided into 41 Union Councils, seven of which form the capital - Dera Ghazi Khan, the remaining 34 Unions are: [3]

  • Aaliwala
  • Bahadur Garh
  • Basti Fauja
  • Basti Malana
  • Bela union council
  • Chhabri
  • Choti Zareen
  • Chotibala
  • Churatta
  • Darkhast Jamal Khan
  • Drahma
  • Gadai
  • Ghaus Abad
  • Haji Ghazi
  • Jakhar Imam Shah
  • Jhoke Uttra
  • Kala
  • Khakhi
  • Kot Chutta
  • Kot Haibat
  • Kot Mubarak
  • Mamoori
  • Mana Ahmadani
  • Mutafariq Chahan
  • Nawan
  • Notak
  • Paigah
  • Pir Adil
  • Ramin
  • Sakhi
  • Sarwar
  • Samina
  • Shadan Lund
  • Shah Sadar Din
  • Wadore
  • Yaroo

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References

  1. ↑ "DISTRICT AND TEHSIL LEVEL POPULATION SUMMARY WITH REGION BREAKUP: PUNJAB" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2018-01-03. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  2. ↑ Dera Ghāzi Khān Tahsīl - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 11, p. 257.
  3. ↑ Tehsils & Unions in the District of D.G. Khan - Government of Pakistan Archived February 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine .


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