Shangla (District)

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Shangla District
State : Pakistan Pakistan
Province : Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Seat : Alpuri
Coordinates : 34 ° 41 '  N , 71 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 34 ° 41 '0 "  N , 71 ° 42' 0"  E
Area : 1 586  km²
 
Residents : 757,810 (2017)
Population density : 478 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : PST ( UTC + 5 )
Map of Pakistan, position of Shangla district highlighted
Landscape in Shangla

The district Shangla is an administrative district in Pakistan in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . The seat of the district administration is the city of Alpuri .

The district has an area of ​​1586 km² and according to the 2017 census 757,810 inhabitants. The population density is 478 inhabitants / km². Shangla is in a difficult to access and underdeveloped region. Shangla has the lowest human development index in the province and the second lowest in the country.

geography

The district is located in the central north of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, which is in the north of Pakistan.

history

The district was created in 1995 from parts of Swat . In the district there has been fighting between the Pakistani army and the Taliban in recent years .

Demographics

Between 1998 and 2017, the population grew by 2.96% annually. 100% of the population lives in rural regions. 385,471 men, 372,338 women and 1 transgender live in 89,695 households , resulting in a gender ratio of 103.5 men per 100 women and thus a common surplus of men for Pakistan.

The literacy rate in the years 2014/15 among the population over 10 years of age was 36% (women: 12%, men: 59%) and thus below the average for the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of 53%.

year population
1972 179,813
1981 251,546
1998 434,563
2017 757.810

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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. ↑ Deprivation profile of regions By Syed Shahid Husain DAWN, September 23, 2002; Retrieved June 21, 2004
  4. ↑ Ranking of Districts of the Human Development Index 2003
  5. ^ Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (2016). Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2014-15. Government of Pakistan, accessed June 29, 2019 .