Jampur District
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Jampur Tehsil تحصیل جام پُور | |
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 _-_panoramio_(4).jpg) Top: Masjid Deen Muhammad Khan, Jampur View of desert region in the tehsil | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province |  Punjab |
| Division | Dera Ghazi Khan |
| Headquarters | Jampur |
| Government | |
| • Type | District Administration |
| • Deputy Commissioner | N/A |
| • District Police Officer | N/A |
| Area [1]: 13 | |
| • Tehsils of Punjab | 12,318 km2 (4,756 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Tehsils of Punjab | 1,996,039 |
| • Density | 160/km2 (420/sq mi) |
| • Urban | N/A |
| • Rural | N/A |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Number of Districts | 1 |
| Main language(s) | Saraiki, Balochi |
| Website | rajanpur |
Jampur (Urdu: جامپور) is a District in the province of Punjab, Pakistan with its administrative headquarters in the city of Jampur.[2] Lying west of the Indus River, its inhabitants are mostly Saraikis and Baloch while most of urban area is inhabited by Urdu speaking Muhajir families. According to the 1998 census, the district had a population of 1,100,000, and 14.27% of these were inhabitants of urban areas.[3]
Administration
[edit]| # | District | Area
(km²)[4] |
Pop.
(2023) |
Density
(ppl/km²) (2023) |
Lit. rate
(2023) |
Union Councils |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muhammadpur | 13 | ||||
| 2 | Jampur | 2,322 | 1,012,039 | 435.85 | 38.07% | 19 |
| 3 | Dajal | |||||
| 4 | Tribal Area |
References
[edit]- ^ 1998 District Census report of Rajanpur. Census publication. Vol. 27. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 1999.
- ^ Correspondent, Our (31 December 2022). "Jampur gets district status". Tribune TODAY'S PAPER. p. 1. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ 1998 Census figures – Urban Resource Centre Archived 2006-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).
Provincial capital: Lahore | ||
| Bahawalpur |  | |
| Dera Ghazi Khan | ||
| Faisalabad | ||
| Gujranwala | ||
| Gujrat | ||
| Lahore | ||
| Mianwali | ||
| Multan | ||
| Rawalpindi | ||
| Sahiwal | ||
| Sargodha | ||