Quetta (district)

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Quetta District
State : Pakistan Pakistan
Province : Balochistan
Seat : Quetta
Coordinates : 30 ° 10 ′  N , 67 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 30 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 67 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E
Area : 2 653  km²
 
Residents : 2,275,699 (2017)
Population density : 858 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : PST ( UTC + 5 )
 
Website :
Map of Pakistan, position of Quetta district highlighted

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

The district has an area of ​​2653 km² and according to the 2017 census 2,275,699 inhabitants. The population density is 858 inhabitants / km². Various languages ​​such as Pashto , Balochish , Punjabi , Urdu and Brahui are spoken in the district.

geography

The district is located in the north of the Balochistan Province, which is in the west of Pakistan.

Administrative division

The district is administratively divided into three tehsil :

Demographics

Between 1998 and 2017 the population grew at an annual rate of 5.82%, which is very rapid. Around 44% of the population live in urban regions and around 56% in rural regions. 1,193,913 men, 1,081,755 women and 31 transgender live in 276,711 households . This results in a gender ratio of 110.4 men per 100 women and thus a more frequent male surplus for Pakistan.

The literacy rate in the years 2014/15 among the population aged 10 and over was 63% (women: 37%, men: 78%).

year population
1972 252,577
1981 383,403
1998 773.936
2017 2,275,699

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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 . [online] Islamabad: Government of Pakistan, p.111. In: http://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/pslm/publications/PSLM_2014-15_National-Provincial-District_report.pdf