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Kot Addu District

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Kot Addu District
ضِلع کوٹ ادو
District of Punjab
A board representing boundary of district Kot Addu
A board representing boundary of district Kot Addu
Country Pakistan
Province Punjab
DivisionDera Ghazi Khan
HeadquartersKot Addu
Government
 • TypePoliticians
 • Politicians(Minister Mian Shabbir Ali Qureshi.

MPA Mian Ahsan Ali Qureshi.

Chairman Mian Hassan Ali Qureshi.

Syed Fahaam Ali Naqvi Acknowledged as Talib Shah.)
 • District Police OfficerSyed Hasnain Haider
 • District Health OfficerN/A
Area
 • Total
3,471 km2 (1,340 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total
1,347,501
 • Density390/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Area code0697
Number of Tehsils2

Kot Addu District (Urdu: ضِلع کوٹ ادو) is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The district headquarter is Kot Addu city.

History

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Kot Addu was established by Addu Khan, son of the Mirani chieftain Ghazi Khan, in the 15th century.[2] Kot Addu was part of Muzaffargarh District as Kot Addu Tehsil until 2022, after which it upgraded to district level.[3]

Administration

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The district is administratively subdivided into two tehsils.

Tehsil[4] Area

(km²)[5]

Pop.

(2023)

Density

(ppl/km²)

(2023)

Literacy rate

(2023)[6]

Union Councils
Chowk Sarwar Shaheed 1,785 414,578 232.26 55.50%
Kot Addu 1,686 1,072,180 635.93 58.19% 32

Demographics

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Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1951 143,009—    
1961 184,639+2.59%
1972 313,137+4.92%
1981 449,493+4.10%
1998 808,438+3.51%
2017 1,347,501+2.73%
2023 1,486,758+1.65%
Sources:[7]

As of the 2023 census, Kot Addu district has 251,512 households and a population of 1,486,758.[8] The district has a sex ratio of 100.85 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 57.44%: 66.23% for males and 48.47% for females.[9][10] 432,584 (29.12% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age.[11] 283,819 (19.09%) live in urban areas.[9]

Religion in Layyah district (2023)[12]
Religion Percent
Islam
 
 99.43%
Christianity
 
 0.50%
Other or not stated
 
 0.07%
Religion in Kot Addu District
Religion 1941[13]: 62–63 [a] 2017[1] 2023[12]
Pop. % Pop. % Pop. %
Islam 117,505 87.96% 1,341,598 99.56% 1,476,968 99.43%
Hinduism [b] 14,303 10.71% 401 0.03% 428 0.03%
Sikhism 1,720 1.29% — — 35 ~0%
Christianity 52 0.04% 5,059 0.38% 7,498 0.50%
Ahmadi — — 413 0.03% 463 0.03%
Others [c] 5 0% 175 0.01% 90 0.01%
Total Population 133,585 100% 1,347,501 100% 1,485,482 100%

Languages of Kot Addu district (2023)[14]

  Saraiki (79.80%)
  Punjabi (11.60%)
  Urdu (4.79%)
  Pashto (2.66%)
  Others (1.15%)

At the time of the 2023 census, 79.80% of the population spoke Saraiki, 11.60% Punjabi, 4.79% Urdu and 2.66% Pashto as their first language.[14]

Notes

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  1. ^ 1941 figures are for Kot Addu tehsil of Muzaffargarh District, which roughly corresponds to present-day Kot Addu district. Historic district borders may not be an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.
  2. ^ 1941 census: Including Ad-Dharmis
  3. ^ Including Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, or not stated

References

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  1. ^ a b "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  2. ^ چوہدری, بابر عزیز (23 March 2020). "کوٹ ادو آج بھی اپنی حالت سنورنے کا منتظر". Nawaiwaqt (in Urdu). Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Punjab CM approves establishment of four new districts in province". Daily Times. 15 October 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  4. ^ Divisions/Districts of Pakistan Archived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Note: Although divisions as an administrative structure has been abolished, the election commission of Pakistan still groups districts under the division names
  5. ^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).
  6. ^ "LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  7. ^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  8. ^ "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 20" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  9. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 1" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  10. ^ "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 12" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  11. ^ "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 5" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  12. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 9" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  13. ^ "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME VI PUNJAB PROVINCE". Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  14. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 11" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

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