Sahiwal (District)

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Sahiwal District
State : Pakistan Pakistan
Province : Punjab
Seat : Sahiwal
Coordinates : 30 ° 35 ′  N , 73 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 30 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  N , 73 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E
Area : 3 201  km²
 
Residents : 1,995,958 (2017)
Population density : 624 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : PST ( UTC + 5 )
 
Website :
Map of Pakistan, position of Sahiwal district highlighted

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

The district has an area of ​​3201 km² and according to the 2017 census 1,995,958 inhabitants. The population density is 624 inhabitants / km². The Punjabi language is spoken by the majority in the district .

location

The district is located in the center of the Punjab Province, which is in the east of Pakistan.

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 .

Demographics

Between 1998 and 2017 the population grew by 1.65% annually. Around 21% of the population live in urban regions and around 79% in rural regions. 1,281,072 men, 1,236,369 women and 119 transgender people live in 392,509 households , resulting in a gender ratio of 103.6 men per 100 women, which is a common surplus for Pakistan.

The literacy rate in the years 2014/15 among the population over 10 years of age was 59% (women: 51%, men: 68%) and thus below the average of 63% in the Punjab Province.

year population
1972 944,656
1981 1,281,526
1998 1,843,194
2017 1,995,958

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 .