Haripur District

For the city, see Haripur, Pakistan.
For other usages, see Haripur.

Haripur District
ضلع ہری پور
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District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Top: Khanpur Dam
Bottom: Buddhist remains at Badalpur
Haripur District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Haripur District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DivisionHazara Division
Established1991; 33 years ago (1991)
PrecededAbbottabad District (1853-1991)
HeadquartersHaripur
Administrative Tehsils
03
  • Ghazi Tehsil
    Haripur Tehsil
    Khanpur Tehsil
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • Deputy CommissionerShauzab Abbas
 • ConstituensyNA-18 Haripur
Area
1,725 km2 (666 sq mi)
Elevation
691 m (2,267 ft)
Highest elevation
1,711 m (5,614 ft)
Lowest elevation
416 m (1,365 ft)
Population
 (2023)[1]
1,173,056
 • Density680/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
 • Urban
147,765
 • Rural
1,027,018
DemonymKarachiite
Time zoneUTC+05:00 (PKT)
 • Summer (DST)DST is not observed
ZIP Code
02262
NWD (area) code0995
ISO 3166 codePK-KP
CNIC Code of Haripur District1330X-XXXXXXX-X
Websiteharipur.kp.gov.pk

Haripur District (Hindko, Urdu: ضلع ہری پور) is a district in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Before obtaining the status of a district in 1991, Haripur was a tehsil of Abbottabad District Its headquarters are the city of Haripur. According to 2023 Pakistani census population of Haripur District is 1,173,056 (1.1 million).

Geography

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Boundaries of Haripur

Geographically, the district borders the Abbottabad District to the northeast, Mansehra District to the northeast, the Punjab to the southeast, the Buner to the northwest, and Swabi to the west. The federal capital of Islamabad is adjacent to the district in the south.

Demographics

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Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1951 252,168—    
1961 273,507+0.82%
1972 417,561+3.92%
1981 479,031+1.54%
1998 692,228+2.19%
2017 1,001,515+1.96%
2023 1,174,783+2.70%
Sources:[2]

As of the 2023 census, Haripur district has 192,451 households and a population of 1,174,783. The district has a sex ratio of 101.43 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 74.88%: 84.13% for males and 65.61% for females. 282,230 (24.06% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 147,765 (12.58%) live in urban areas.[1]

Religion

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Religion in Haripur District
Religion 1941[3]: 22 [a] 2017[4] 2023[5]
Pop. % Pop. % Pop. %
Islam 178,545 95.04% 1,000,322 99.88% 1,169,155 99.67%
Hinduism 7,278 3.87% 13 ~0% 50 0.01%
Sikhism 2,011 1.07% — — 22 ~0%
Christianity 14 0.01% 829 0.08% 3,570 0.30%
Other 6 0.01% 351 0.04% 259 0.02%
Total Population 187,854 100% 1,001,515 100% 1,173,056[b] 100%

Languages

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Languages of Haripur district (2023)[6]

  Hindko (80.32%)
  Pashto (14.7%)
  Urdu (2%)
  Punjabi (1.01%)
  Others (1.97%)

At the time of the 2023 census, 942,172 of the population spoke Hindko, 172,471 spoke Pashto, 23,423 Urdu, and 11,854 Punjabi and 23,136 others as their first language.[6]

Administration

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The district of Haripur was a tehsil (sub-division) of the Abbottabad District until 1992. After that, it received the status of an independent district.[7] Currently, Haripur District is divided into three Tehsils:

  1. Haripur Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل ہری پور)[8]
  2. Khanpur Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل خانپور)
  3. Ghazi Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل غازی) [9][8] There were 30 Union Councils in 1962 and in 1979 , 25 UC were reconstituted.

Provincial Assembly

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Member of Provincial Assembly Party Affiliation Constituency Year
Akbar Ayub Khan Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-40 Haripur-I 2024
Arshad Ayub Khan Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-41 Haripur-II 2024
Umer Ayub Khan Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf NA-18 Haripur 2024
Adeel Iqbal Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-42 Haripur-III 2024

Education

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Haripur District has two government-funded postgraduate colleges, providing higher-level education, as well as four-degree colleges for women. The Haripur University was established in 2012, which was initially a Haripur campus (established in March 2008) of the Hazara University .The campus was upgraded to a full-fledged University of Haripur (UoH) in 2012 by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[10][11]

In addition, the project of the Pak-Austria Fachhochschule Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology has also been functioning and is providing higher education since 2017 in village Mang at the main Khanpur Road in Haripur.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 1" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  2. ^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  3. ^ "Census of India, 1941. Vol. 10, North-West Frontier Province". 1941. p. 22. JSTOR saoa.crl.28215543. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Pakistan Census 2017 District-Wise Tables: Haripur District". Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  5. ^ "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 9" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  6. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 11" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  7. ^ 1998 District Census report of Haripur. Census publication. Vol. 91. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.
  8. ^ a b "Tehsils & Unions in the District of Haripur". National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB), Government of Pakistan website. Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  9. ^ "District Haripur". Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Department. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  10. ^ "Approval of upgrading sub-campus of the Hazara University in Haripur to university level". Dawn newspaper. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  11. ^ "University of Haripur". www.uoh.edu.pk.
  1. ^ Haripur tehsil of erstwhile Hazara district, which roughly corresponds to the present district.
  2. ^ Different from official population figure since it excludes sensitive areas where religion was not asked

Further reading

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  • Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, ed (2009). Alexander the Great: A New History. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 47–48. ISBN 978-1-4051-3082-0. [1]
  • Tripathi (1999). History of Ancient India. Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. pp. 118–121. ISBN 978-81-208-0018-2. [2]
  • Narain, pp. 155–165
  • Curtius in McCrindle, Op cit, p 192, J. W. McCrindle; History of Punjab, Vol I, 1997, p 229, Punajbi University, Patiala, (Editors): Fauja Singh, L. M. Joshi; Kambojas Through the Ages, 2005, p 134, Kirpal Singh.
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