Peshawar Division

Peshawar Division
پشاور ڈویژن
پېښور څانګه‎
Division
Peshawar Division (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Peshawar Division (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
CapitalPeshawar
Government
 • TypeDivisional Administration
 • MayorZubair Khan (JUI-F)
 • CommissionerRiaz Khan Mehsud (BPS-20 PCS)
 • Capital City Police OfficerSyed Ashfaq Anwar (BPS-20 PSP)
Population
 (2023)
 • Division
10,035,171
 • Urban
2,635,067 (26.26%)
 • Rural
7,400,104
Language Speakers
[1]
 • Speakers
Literacy
[2]
 • Literacy rate
  • Total:
    (51.32%)
  • Male:
    (64.20 %)
  • Female:
    (37.71%)
Websitecpd.kp.gov.pk

Peshawar Division is an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It was abolished in the reforms of 2000, like all divisions, but reinstated in 2008. At independence in 1947, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) was split into two divisions, Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar. Until 1976, Peshawar Division contained the districts of Hazara and Kohat, when they both became divisions themselves. Later in the mid-1990s, the district of Mardan (and its tehsils) also became a division itself. CNIC code of Peshawar Division is 17.

List of the Districts

# District Headquarter Area

(km²)[3]

Pop.

(2023)

Density

(ppl/km²)

(2023)

Lit. rate

(2023)

1 Charsadda Charsadda 996 1,835,504 1,843.1 53.94%
2 Khyber Landi Kotal 2,576 1,146,267 445.0 38.45%
3 Nowshera Nowshera 1,748 1,740,705 995.8 56.78%
4 Peshawar Peshawar 1,518 4,758,762 3,135.6 53.28%
5 Mohmand Ghalanai 2,296 553,933 241.2 31.28%

List of the Tehsils

# Tehsil Area

(km²)[4]

Pop.

(2023)

Density

(ppl/km²)

(2023)

Lit. rate

(2023)

Districts
1 Charsadda Tehsil 445 909,438 2,043.68 Charsadda District
2 Shabqadar Tehsil 204 440,524 2,159.43
3 Tangi Tehsil 347 485,542 1,399.26
4 Bagh Maidan Tehsil Khyber District
5 Bara Tehsil 1,430 548,084 383.28
6 Bazar Zakha Khel Tehsil
7 Fort Salop Tehsil
8 Jamrud Tehsil 311 243,290 782.28
9 Landi Kotal Tehsil 679 312,313 459.96
10 Mula Gori Tehsil 156 42,580 272.95
11 Painda Cheena Tehsil
12 Ambar Utman Khel Tehsil 273 79,455 291.04 Mohmand District
13 Halim Zai Tehsil 211 89,149 422.51
14 Pindiali Tehsil 454 112,247 247.24
15 Pran Ghar Tehsil 257 36,046 140.26
16 Safi Tehsil 322 109,620 340.43
17 Upper Mohmand (Baizai) Tehsil]] 513 63,659 124.09
18 Yake Ghund Tehsil 266 63,757 239.69
19 Jehangira Tehsil 718 434,984 100.72 Nowshera District
20 Nowshera Tehsil 679 796,226 106.39
21 Pabbi Tehsil 351 509,495 102.42
22 Badbher Tehsil 357 439,912 1,232.25 Peshawar District
23 Chamkani Tehsil 226 624,354 2,762.63
24 Hassan Khel Tehsil 261 72,557 278
25 Mathra Tehsil 218 495,059 2,270.91
26 Peshawar City Tehsil 176 2,113,596 12,009.07
27 Peshtakhara Tehsil 135 480,436 3,558.79
28 Shah Alam Tehsil 145 532,848 3,674.81

Demographics

According to the 2023 census, Peshawar Division had a population of 10,035,171.[5]

Religious groups in Peshawar Division (British North-West Frontier Province era)
Religious
group 		1881[6] 1891[7] 1901[8] 1911[9] 1921[10] 1931[11] 1941[12][13]: 22 
Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. %
Islam 546,117 92.14% 654,443 92.99% 732,870 92.92% 807,788 93.38% 836,222 92.16% 898,683 92.24% 769,589 90.35%
Hinduism 39,321 6.63% 35,417 5.03% 40,183 5.09% 35,367 4.09% 48,144 5.31% 42,321 4.34% 51,212 6.01%
Christianity 4,088 0.69% 4,742 0.67% 4,288 0.54% 5,604 0.65% 7,652 0.84% 8,974 0.92% 6,890 0.81%
Sikhism 3,103 0.52% 9,125 1.3% 11,318 1.44% 16,196 1.87% 15,326 1.69% 24,271 2.49% 24,030 2.82%
Zoroastrianism 39 0.01% 37 0.01% 46 0.01% 49 0.01% 20 0% 59 0.01% 24 0%
Jainism 3 0% 0 0% 0 0% 4 0% 3 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Buddhism 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 2 0% 18 0%
Judaism — — 4 0% 2 0% 1 0% 0 0% 11 0% 70 0.01%
Others 3 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Total population 592,674 100% 703,768 100% 788,707 100% 865,009 100% 907,367 100% 974,321 100% 851,833 100%
Note: British North-West Frontier Province era figures are for Peshawar District, which roughly corresponds to present-day Peshawar Division.

See also

References

  1. ^ "TABLE 11 : POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  3. ^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).
  4. ^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).
  5. ^ https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/kp/pcr/table_1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ "Census of India, 1881 Report on the Census of the Panjáb Taken on the 17th of February 1881, vol. II". 1881. p. 17. JSTOR saoa.crl.25057657. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  7. ^ Edward Maclagan, Sir (1891). "The Punjab and its feudatories, part II--Imperial Tables and Supplementary Returns for the British Territory". p. 14. JSTOR saoa.crl.25318669. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  8. ^ "Census of India 1901. [Vol. 17A]. Imperial tables, I-VIII, X-XV, XVII and XVIII for the Punjab, with the native states under the political control of the Punjab Government, and for the North-west Frontier Province". 1901. p. 34. JSTOR saoa.crl.25363739. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  9. ^ "Census of India 1911. Vol. 13, North-west Frontier Province : part I, Report; part II, Tables". 1911. p. 306. JSTOR saoa.crl.25394102. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Census of India 1921. Vol. 14, North-west Frontier Province : part I, Report; part II, Tables". 1921. p. 344. JSTOR saoa.crl.25430163. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  11. ^ Mallam, G. L.; Dundas, A. D. F. (1933). "Census of India, 1931, vol. XV. North-west frontier province. Part I-Report. Part II-Tables". Peshawar, Printed by the manager, Government stationery and printing, 1933. p. 373. JSTOR saoa.crl.25793233. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  12. ^ India Census Commissioner (1941). "Census of India, 1941. Vol. 10, North-West Frontier Province". p. 22. JSTOR saoa.crl.28215543. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  13. ^ "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME X NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE". Retrieved 14 October 2021.


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