Rakhshan Division

Rakhshan Division رخشان ڈویژن رخشان ولایت‎
Division
Map of Rakhshan Division
Country	Pakistan
Province	Balochistan
Capital	Kharan
Established	17 May 2017
Government
• Type	Divisional Administration
• Commissioner	N/A
• Regional Police Officer	N/A
Area
•  Division	98,596 km2 (38,068 sq mi)
Population  (2023)
•  Division	1,040,001
• Density	10.55/km2 (27.3/sq mi)
•  Urban	190,539 (18.32%)
•  Rural	849,462 (81.68%)
Ethnicities [1]
• People	Largest: Balochs (69.51%) Others: Brahvis (26.98%)
Literacy [2]
• Literacy rate	Total: (36.84%) Male: (45.65%) Female: (27.19%)

Rakhshan Division is an administrative division of Balochistan Province, Pakistan. ^{[3] [4]}

List of the Districts

#	District	Headquarter	Area (km2) [5]	Population (2023)	Density (ppl/km2) (2023)	Lit. rate (2023)
1	Chagai	Dalbandin	44,748	269,192	6.0	33.15%
2	Washuk	Washuk	33,093	302,623	9.1	21.58%
3	Kharan	Kharan	14,958	260,352	17.4	41.07%
4	Nushki	Nushki	5,797	207,834	35.9	57.12%

List of the Tehsils

#	Tehsil	Area (km2) [6]	Population (2023)	Density (ppl/km2) (2023)	Literacy rate (2023)	Districts
1	Dalbandin Tehsil	7,791	122,918	15.78		Chagai
2	Nokundi Tehsil	16,092	30,625	1.90
3	Taftan Tehsil	9,318	19,259	2.07
4	Chagai Tehsil	3,975	73,482	18.49
5	Amuri tehsil
6	Chilgazi tehsil
7	Yak Machh	7,572	22,908	3.03
8	Kharan Tehsil	2,941	104,035	35.37		Kharan
9	Sar-Kharan Tehsil	3,539	86,015	24.30
10	Tohumulk Tehsil	6,347	49,803	7.85
11	Patkain Tehsil	2,131	20,499	9.62
12	Nushki Tehsil	3,731	190,905	51.17		Nushki
13	Dak Tehsil	2,066	16,929	8.19
14	Besima Tehsil	6,014	63,368	10.54		Washuk
15	Mashkel Tehsil	11,663	67,142	5.76
16	Washuk Tehsil	7,494	55,585	7.42
17	Nag Tehsil	4,338	57,467	13.25
18	Shahgori Tehsil	3,584	59,061	16.48

Constituencies

#	District	Provincial Assembly Constituency	National Assembly Constituency
1	Washuk	PB-31 Washuk	NA-260 Chagai-cum-Nushki-cum-Kharan-cum-Washuk
2	Chagai	PB-32 Chagai
3	Kharan	PB-33 Kharan
4	Nushki	PB-34 Nushki

Demographics

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1951	...	—
1961	...	—
1972	...	—
1981	...	—
1998	409,473	—
2017	737,162	+3.14%
2023	1,040,001	+5.90%
Sources: [7]

According to 2023 census, Rakhshan Division had a population of 1,040,001, ^[8] roughly equal to the country of Djibouti ^[9] or the US state of Delaware. ^[10]

See also

• Districts of Pakistan
  • Districts of Balochistan
• Tehsils of Pakistan
  • Tehsils of Balochistan
• Divisions of Pakistan
  • Divisions of Balochistan
  • Divisions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Divisions of Punjab
  • Divisions of Sindh
  • Divisions of Azad Kashmir
  • Divisions of Gilgit-Baltistan

References

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2. "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
3. "BALOCHISTAN - Overview" (PDF). Relief Web. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
4. "New districts". DAWN. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
5. "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, BALOCHISTAN" (PDF).
6. "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, BALOCHISTAN" (PDF).
7. "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
8. "Area, population by sex, sex ratio, population density, urban population, household size and annual growth rate, census-2023" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2024.
9. US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2011. Latvia 2,204,708, July 2011 est.
10. "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2011. New Mexico - 2,059,179