Kot Addu District

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Kot Addu District
ضِلع کوٹ ادو
District of Punjab
A board marking the boundary of district Kot Addu
A board marking the 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
 • District of Punjab
3,471 km2 (1,340 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[1]
 • District of Punjab
1,486,758
 • Density430/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
 • Urban
283,819 (19.20%)
 • Rural
1,202,939 (80.80%)
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

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 was upgraded to district level.[3]

Administration

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

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[14] 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)[15]
  1. Saraiki (79.8%)
  2. Punjabi (11.6%)
  3. Urdu (4.79%)
  4. Pashto (2.66%)
  5. Others (1.15%)

At the 2023 census, 79.80% of the population spoke Saraiki, 11.60% Punjabi, 4.79% Urdu and 2.66% Pashto as their first language.[15]

See also

Notes

  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

  1. ^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF). 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. ^ "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  15. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 11" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.