Lahore Division

For the military unit, see 3rd (Lahore) Division.

Lahore Division لاہور ڈویژن
Division
Map of Lahore Division
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Capital	Lahore
Districts	Lahore Kasur Nankana Sahib Sheikhupura
Government
• Type	Divisional Administration
• Commissioner	Muhammad Ali Randhawa (PAS)
• Capital City Police Officer (CCPO)	Bilal Siddiqui Kamyana (PSP)
Area
•  Division	11,727 km2 (4,528 sq mi)
Population  (2023)
•  Division	22,772,710
• Density	1,900/km2 (5,000/sq mi)
•  Urban	16,122,198 (70.80%)
•  Rural	6,650,512
Literacy [1]
• Literacy rate	Total: (73.63%) Male: (76.60%) Female: (70.35%)
National Assembly Seats (2018)	Total (18)   PML-N (13)   PTI (5)
Punjab Assembly Seats (2018)	Total (39)   PML-N (28)   PTI (11)
Website	lahoredivision.punjab.gov.pk

Lahore Division is an administrative division of Punjab Province, Pakistan. It comprises four Districts - Kasur, Lahore, Nankana Sahib and Sheikhupura. The Lahore Division is commanded by a Commissioner to manage the division. Under the Commissioner there are four Additional Commissioners. For each district there is a Deputy Commissioner. Under the reforms of 2000, this tier of government was abolished, but in 2008 divisions were restored. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

History

Map of the Lahore Division comprising the Districts of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Lahore, Sialkot, and Gujranwala, surveyed in 1850–55. Reduced and drawn by Abdoos Sobhan, 1858.

Lahore Division was originally an administrative division of the Punjab Province of British India. It extended along the right bank of the Sutlej River from the Himalaya to Multan division, and comprised the six districts of Sialkot, Gujranwala, Lahore, Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Gujrat. The total area of the division was 44,430 km² (17,154 sq mi) and the population according to the 1901 census of India was 5,598,463. ^[5] The commissioner for the division also exercised political control over the hill state of Chamba.

The Commissioner's headquarters were at Lahore and Dalhousie.The total population of the Division increased from 4,696,636 in 1881 to 5,321,535 in 1891, and 5,598,463 in 1901. The total area was 44,430 square kilometres (17,154 sq mi), and the density of population was 326 persons per square mile, compared with 208 for British territory in the Province as a whole. In 1901 Muslims numbered 3,332,175, or 60 percent of the total; while other religions included Hindus, 1,567,402; Sikhs, 661,320; Jains, 5,5,07; Buddhists, 6; Parsis, 228; and Christians, 31,815, of whom 25,248 were natives. ^[6]

The division contained six districts: ^[5]

District	Area (square miles)	Population (1901 census figures)	Land revenue and cesses (thousands of rupees).
Gujrat	4,771	497,706	6,90
Lahore	3,704	1,162,109	12,55
Amritsar	1,601	1,023,828	14,54
Gurdaspur	1,889	940,334	17,72
Sialkot	1,991	1,083,909	17,27
Gujranwala	3,198	890,557	12,89
Total	17,154	5,598,463	81,87

Gurdaspur included a few square miles of mountainous country, enclosing the hill station of Dalhousie (highest, point, 7,687 feet) ; but otherwise the Division was flat. It contained 9,869 villages and 41 towns, of which the largest are Lahore (population, 202,964, including cantonment), Amristar(162,429), Sialkot (57,956), Gujranwala (29,224), Batala (27,365), and Gujrat (22,022). In commercial importance Lahore and Amritsar dwarfed all other towns in the Division, but Sialkot and Batala were considerably more than local centres. Besides the administrative charge of six British Districts, the Commissioner of Lahore had political control over the Native State of Chamba, which had an area of 8,330 square kilometres (3,216 sq mi) and a population (1901) of 127,834. ^[5]

List of the Districts

#	District [7]	Headquarter	Area (km²) [8]	Pop. (2023)	Density (ppl/km²) (2023)	Lit. rate (2023)
1	Lahore	Lahore	1,772	13,004,135	7,336.6	79.62%
2	Kasur	Kasur	3,995	4,084,286	1,021.4	62.85%
3	Nankana Sahib [9]	Nankana Sahib	2,216	1,634,871	737.0	63.12%
4	Sheikhupura	Sheikhupura	3,744	4,049,418	1,080.3	68.88%

List of the Tehsils

#	Tehsil	Area (km²) [10]	Pop. (2023)	Density (ppl/km²) (2023)	Lit. rate (2023)	Districts
1	Chunian	1,212	979,746	808.37	60.64%	Kasur District
2	Kasur	1,493	1,603,658	1,074.12	63.63%
3	Kot Radha Kishan	398	424,875	1,067.53	64.66%
4	Pattoki	892	1,076,007	1,206.29	62.98%
5	Lahore Cantonment	466	1,885,098	4,045.27	81.01%	Lahore District
6	Lahore City	214	4,123,354	19,268.01	80.36%
7	Model Town	353	3,244,906	9,192.37	78.94%
8	Raiwind	467	1,080,637	2,314.00	72.35%
9	Shalimar	272	2,670,140	9,816.69	81.21%
10	Nishtar	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
11	Wagah	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
12	Iqbal Town	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
13	Ravi	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
14	Saddar	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
15	Sangla Hill	223	269,993	1,210.73	72.08%	Nankana Sahib District
16	Nankana Sahib	1,662	1,065,063	640.83	59.02%
17	Shah Kot	331	299,815	905.79	69.28%
18	Muridke	1,028	721,192	701.55	69.10%	Sheikhupura District
19	Ferozewala	511	997,246	1,951.56	66.55%
20	Safdarabad	461	320,851	695.99	67.55 %
21	Sheikhupura	1,369	1,780,837	1,300.83	70.72%
22	Sharak Pur	375	229,292	611.45	65.05%

Independence

With the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, Lahore Division was divided among the two countries. with the eastern half becoming Amritsar District.

See also

• Divisions of Pakistan
• Divisions of Punjab, Pakistan

References

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2. Divisions/Districts of Pakistan Archived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
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4. "Punjab Government Plans to Carve a New District from Lahore". 6 January 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-06-03.
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