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The Districts of Pakistan (Urdu: اِضلاعِ پاكِستان‬‎), are the third-order administrative divisions of Pakistan, below provinces and divisions, but form the first-tier of local government. In total, there are 156 districts in Pakistan.

History[edit]

Prior to 2001, there were 106 districts but with the reorganization, these were reduced to 102 by the merger of the five districts of Karachi Central, Karachi East, Karachi South, Karachi West and Malir to form Karachi District. The number of districts rose to 106 again in December 2004, when four new districts were created in the province of Sindh of which one (Umerkot) had existed until 2000 and three districts (Kashmore, Qambar and Jamshoro) were newly created.^[1][a] The new districts were carved out of Mirpur Khas, Jacobabad, Larkana and Dadu Districts respectively. In May 2005, the Punjab provincial government created a new district by raising the status of Nankana Sahib from a tehsil of Sheikhupura District to a district in its own right.^[2][b] On 11 July 2011, the Sindh Government restored again the districts of Karachi South, Karachi East, Malir, Karachi West and Karachi Central, then later in 2013, the district of Korangi was carved out of Karachi East District. In Azad Jammu & Kashmir, a second-tier of government was formed from three administrative divisions into ten districts. In Gilgit–Baltistan, there are nine districts divided between the two regions of Gilgit and Baltistan. In 2018, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) was merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and FATA agencies were converted into districts.

Chagai is the largest district of Pakistan by area while Lahore District is the largest by population with total population of 11,126,285 by 2017 census. Quetta is the largest district of Balochistan by population with total population of 2,275,699 by 2017 census. Bahawalpur is the largest district of Punjab by area. Chitral is the largest by area and Peshawar is the largest by population from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with the population of 4,269,079 by Census 2017. Sindh's largest district by area is Tharparkar^[3] and by population its Karachi West with a population of 3,914,757 by 2017 Census. The combined population of six districts of Karachi division is over 16 million by 2017 census making an average population of these six districts of Karachi division over 2.675 million each. Neelum and Kotli are the largest from Azad Kashmir by area and population respectively. Gilgit is the largest by area and population both for Gilgit-Baltistan.

Provinces and Territories[edit]

Gilgit–Baltistan

Azad Jammu and Kashmir

Balochistan

Punjab

Sindh

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

ICT

Afghanistan

Iran

China

India

Arabian Sea

Sr. No.	States / Provinces	Districts	Area (km²)	Population (2017)[4]	Density (people/km²)	Country of Comparable Size
1	Azad Jammu & Kashmir	10	13,297	2,972,500	223.55	Montenegro
2	Balochistan	34[5]	347,190	12,344,408	35.55	Germany
3	Gilgit-Baltistan	10	72,971	3,500,000	47.96	Sierra Leone
4	Islamabad Capital Territory	1	906	2,006,572	2214.76	São Tomé and Príncipe
5	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	34[6]	101,741	35,525,047	349.17	Iceland
6	Punjab	36[7]	205,345	110,012,442	535.74	Belarus
7	Sindh	29[8]	140,914	47,886,051	339.82	Tajikistan

Azad Jammu & Kashmir[edit]

Balochistan[edit]

Gilgit–Baltistan[edit]

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa[edit]

The following subdivisions are not part of any specific district.

Punjab[edit]

Sindh[edit]

See also[edit]

• Administrative units of Pakistan


• List of Pakistani Districts by Human Development Index

Notes[edit]

All the figures require being re-checked. Data entry error has occurred in Sindh Province.

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• 
  Population Census Organization, Government of Pakistan. "List of Districts/Agencies/Tribal Areas". Archived from the original on 19 December 2010. Retrieved 14 April 2006.
  


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  Population Census Organization, Government of Pakistan. "List of Tehsils/Talukas with respect to their Districts". Archived from the original on 30 December 2010. Retrieved 14 April 2006.
  


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  Country Profiles, South Asian Media Net. "Pakistan >> District Profiles". Archived from the original on 18 May 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2006.
  


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  "District Governments of Sindh". Local Government Department, Government of Sindh. Archived from the original on 26 November 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  

External links[edit]

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  List of districts from the Population Census Organization (Government of Pakistan)