Kasur (district)

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Kasur District
State : Pakistan Pakistan
Province : Punjab
Seat : Kasur
Coordinates : 31 ° 0 ′  N , 74 ° 10 ′  E Coordinates: 31 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 74 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  E
Area : 3 995  km²
 
Residents : 3,454,996 (2017)
Population density : 865 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : PST ( UTC + 5 )
 
Website :
Map of Pakistan, position of Kasur district highlighted

The district Kasur is an administrative district in Pakistan in the province of Punjab . The seat of the district administration is the city of the same name Kasur .

The district has an area of ​​3995 km² and, according to the 2017 census, has a population of 3,454,996. The population density is 865 inhabitants / km². The Panjabi language is spoken by the majority in the district .

location

The district is located in the north of the Punjab Province, which is in the west of Pakistan and has an international border with India .

Administrative division

The district is administratively divided into four tehsil :

history

The region was u. a. Controlled by the Indo-Aryans , Greeks , Maurya , Kushana , Gupta , Hephthalites , Ghaznavids , the Sultanate of Delhi , Mughals , Sikhs and British . The modern district emerged in July 1976 from parts of Lahore .

Demographics

Between 1998 and 2017, the population grew by 2.03% annually. About 26% of the population live in urban areas and about 74% in rural areas. 1,790,253 men, 1,664,606 women and 137 transgender people live in 526,166 households , resulting in a gender ratio of 107.6 men per 100 women, which is a frequent male surplus for Pakistan.

The literacy rate in the years 2014/15 among the population over 10 years of age was 59% (women: 54%, men: 66%) and is thus below the Punjab province average of 63%.

year population
1972 1,186,386
1981 1,528,002
1998 2,354,506
2017 3,454,996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DISTRICT WISE CENSUS RESULTS CENSUS 2017. August 29, 2017, accessed May 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Pakistani Districts wise Population Census 2017. Accessed May 30, 2019 .
  3. ^ Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (2016). Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2014-15. Government of Pakistan, accessed June 29, 2019 .