Okara (district)

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Okara district
State : Pakistan Pakistan
Province : Punjab
Seat : Okara
Coordinates : 30 ° 48 '  N , 73 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 30 ° 48 '0 "  N , 73 ° 26' 0"  E
Area : 4th 377  km²
 
Residents : 3,039,139 (2017)
Population density : 694 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : PST ( UTC + 5 )
 
Website :
Map of Pakistan, position of Okara district highlighted

Okara District is an administrative district in Pakistan in the Punjab Province . The seat of the district administration is the city of the same name Okara .

The district has an area of ​​4377 km² and according to the 2017 census 3,039,139 inhabitants. The population density is 694 inhabitants / km². The Panjabi language is spoken by the majority in the district .

location

The district is located in the northeast 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 three tehsil :

Demographics

Between 1998 and 2017, the population grew by 1.63% annually. Around 27% of the population live in urban regions and around 73% in rural regions. There are 1,564,476 men, 1,474,495 women and 168 transgender people in 493,180 households , which results in a gender ratio of 106.1 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 is 55% (women: 47%, men: 63%) and is thus below the Punjab province average of 63%.

year population
1972 1,123,812
1981 1,487,261
1998 2,232,992
2017 3,039,139

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 .