Toba Tek Singh (District)

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Toba Tek Singh District
State : Pakistan Pakistan
Province : Punjab
Seat : Toba Tek Singh
Coordinates : 30 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 30 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  N , 72 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
Area : 3 252  km²
 
Residents : 1,495,982 (2017)
Population density : 460 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : PST ( UTC + 5 )
 
Website :
Map of Pakistan, position of Toba Tek Singh district highlighted
landscape

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

The district has an area of ​​3252 km² and, according to the 2017 census, 2,190,015 inhabitants. The population density is 460 inhabitants / km². The Punjabi language is spoken by the majority in the district .

The city and district are named after a religious Sikh figure named Tek Singh . Legend has it that Singh, a kind hearted man, served water and sheltered exhausted and thirsty travelers who passed a small pond ("Toba" in Panjabi) that was eventually named Toba Tek Singh and namesake of a town and the 1982 created district.

location

The district is located in the center of the Punjab Province (Pakistan) .

Administrative division

The district is administratively divided into four tehsil :

Demographics

Between 1998 and 2017 the population grew by 1.71% annually. Around 20% of the population live in urban regions and around 80% in rural regions. 1,100,048 men, 1,089,829 women and 138 transgender people live in 338,469 households , resulting in a gender ratio of 100.9 men per 100 women, which is a common surplus of men for Pakistan. The literacy rate in the years 2014/15 among the population over 10 years of age was 66% (women: 59%, men: 74%) and is thus above the Punjab province average of 63%.

year population
1972 1,084,442
1981 1,134,572
1998 1,621,593
2017 1,495,982

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 .