Peshawar Division

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Peshawar Division
پشاور ڈویژن
پېښور څانګه
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Peshawar Division (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
Province PK-NWFP.svg  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Capital Peshawar
Government
  TypeDivisional Administration
   Mayor Zubair Khan (JUI-F)
  CommissionerRiaz Khan Mehsud (BPS-20 PCS)
  Capital City Police OfficerSyed Ashfaq Anwar (BPS-20 PSP)
Population
 (2023)
   Division
10,035,171
   Urban
2,635,067 (26.26%)
   Rural
7,400,104
Language Speakers
[1]
  Speakers
Literacy
[2]
  Literacy rate
  • Total:
    (51.32%)
  • Male:
    (64.20 %)
  • Female:
    (37.71%)
Website cpd.kp.gov.pk

Peshawar Division is an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It was abolished in the reforms of 2000, like all divisions, but reinstated in 2008. At independence in 1947, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) was split into two divisions, Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar. Until 1976, Peshawar Division contained the districts of Hazara and Kohat, when they both became divisions themselves. Later in the mid-1990s, the district of Mardan (and its tehsils) also became a division itself. CNIC code of Peshawar Division is 17.

Contents

List of the Districts

#DistrictHeadquarterArea

(km²) [3]

Pop.

(2023)

Density

(ppl/km²)

(2023)

Lit. rate

(2023)

1 Charsadda Charsadda 9961,835,5041,843.153.94%
2 Khyber Landi Kotal 2,5761,146,267445.038.45%
3 Nowshera Nowshera 1,7481,740,705995.856.78%
4 Peshawar Peshawar 1,5184,758,7623,135.653.28%
5 Mohmand Ghalanai 2,296553,933241.231.28%

List of the Tehsils

#TehsilArea

(km²) [4]

Pop.

(2023)

Density

(ppl/km²)

(2023)

Lit. rate

(2023)

Districts
1 Charsadda Tehsil 445909,4382,043.68 Charsadda District
2 Shabqadar Tehsil 204440,5242,159.43
3 Tangi Tehsil 347485,5421,399.26
4 Bagh Maidan Tehsil Khyber District
5 Bara Tehsil 1,430548,084383.28
6 Bazar Zakha Khel Tehsil
7 Fort Salop Tehsil
8 Jamrud Tehsil 311243,290782.28
9 Landi Kotal Tehsil 679312,313459.96
10 Mula Gori Tehsil 15642,580272.95
11 Painda Cheena Tehsil
12 Ambar Utman Khel Tehsil 27379,455291.04 Mohmand District
13 Halim Zai Tehsil 21189,149422.51
14 Pindiali Tehsil 454112,247247.24
15 Pran Ghar Tehsil 25736,046140.26
16 Safi Tehsil 322109,620340.43
17 Upper Mohmand (Baizai) Tehsil]]51363,659124.09
18 Yake Ghund Tehsil 26663,757239.69
19 Jehangira Tehsil 718434,984100.72 Nowshera District
20 Nowshera Tehsil 679796,226106.39
21 Pabbi Tehsil 351509,495102.42
22 Badbher Tehsil 357439,9121,232.25 Peshawar District
23 Chamkani Tehsil 226624,3542,762.63
24 Hassan Khel Tehsil 26172,557278
25 Mathra Tehsil 218495,0592,270.91
26 Peshawar City Tehsil 1762,113,59612,009.07
27 Peshtakhara Tehsil 135480,4363,558.79
28 Shah Alam Tehsil 145532,8483,674.81

Demographics

According to the 2023 census, Peshawar Division had a population of 10,035,171. [5]

Religious groups in Peshawar Division (British North-West Frontier Province era)
Religious
group
1881 [6] 1891 [7] 1901 [8] 1911 [9] 1921 [10] 1931 [11] 1941 [12] [13] :22
Pop. %Pop.%Pop.%Pop.%Pop.%Pop.%Pop.%
Islam Star and Crescent.svg 546,117654,443732,870807,788836,222898,683769,589
Hinduism Om.svg 39,32135,41740,18335,36748,14442,32151,212
Christianity Christian cross.svg 4,0884,7424,2885,6047,6528,9746,890
Sikhism Khanda.svg 3,1039,12511,31816,19615,32624,27124,030
Zoroastrianism Faravahar.svg 39374649205924
Jainism Jain Prateek Chihna.svg 3004300
Buddhism Dharma Wheel (2).svg 00000218
Judaism Star of David.svg 42101170
Others3000000
Total population592,674703,768788,707865,009907,367974,321851,833
Note: British North-West Frontier Province era figures are for Peshawar District, which roughly corresponds to present-day Peshawar Division.

See also

References

  1. "TABLE 11 : POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  2. "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  3. "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).
  4. "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).
  5. https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/kp/pcr/table_1.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  6. "Census of India, 1881 Report on the Census of the Panjáb Taken on the 17th of February 1881, vol. II". 1881. p. 17. JSTOR   saoa.crl.25057657 . Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  7. Edward Maclagan, Sir (1891). "The Punjab and its feudatories, part II--Imperial Tables and Supplementary Returns for the British Territory". p. 14. JSTOR   saoa.crl.25318669 . Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  8. "Census of India 1901. [Vol. 17A]. Imperial tables, I-VIII, X-XV, XVII and XVIII for the Punjab, with the native states under the political control of the Punjab Government, and for the North-west Frontier Province". 1901. p. 34. JSTOR   saoa.crl.25363739 . Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  9. "Census of India 1911. Vol. 13, North-west Frontier Province : part I, Report; part II, Tables". 1911. p. 306. JSTOR   saoa.crl.25394102 . Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  10. "Census of India 1921. Vol. 14, North-west Frontier Province : part I, Report; part II, Tables". 1921. p. 344. JSTOR   saoa.crl.25430163 . Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  11. Mallam, G. L.; Dundas, A. D. F. (1933). "Census of India, 1931, vol. XV. North-west frontier province. Part I-Report. Part II-Tables". Peshawar, Printed by the manager, Government stationery and printing, 1933. p. 373. JSTOR   saoa.crl.25793233 . Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  12. India Census Commissioner (1941). "Census of India, 1941. Vol. 10, North-West Frontier Province". p. 22. JSTOR   saoa.crl.28215543 . Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  13. "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME X NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE" . Retrieved 14 October 2021.

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