Murree District
Murree District
ضلع مری | |
---|---|
Country | Pakistan |
Province | Punjab |
Division | Rawalpindi |
Established | 14 October 2022 |
Headquarters | Murree |
Government | |
• Type | District Administration |
• Deputy Commissioner | Agha Zaheer Abbas Sherazi |
Area | |
• Total | 738 km2 (285 sq mi) |
Population (2017) | |
• Total | 352,329 |
• Density | 480/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
• Urban | 179,444 |
Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Area code | 0593 |
Number of Tehsils | 2 |
Murree, (Urdu: ضِلع مری) is a district of the Rawalpindi Division in the northernmost part of the Pakistani province of Punjab. It has two tehsils, Kotli Sattian and Murree.
Administrative division
[edit]Sr. | Tehsil | Area
(km2)[1] |
Population
(2023)[1] |
Density
(ppl/km²) (2023)[1] |
Literacy
rate (2023) |
Union Councils |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kotli Sattian | 304 | 120,421 | 396.12 | 88.20% | |
2 | Murree | 434 | 252,526 | 581.86 | 84.79% | 15 |
Murree District | 738 | 372,947 | 480 | 86.01% |
Demographics
[edit]Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
---|---|---|
1951 | … | — |
1961 | … | — |
1972 | … | — |
1981 | … | — |
1998 | … | — |
2017 | 352,329 | — |
2023 | 372,947 | +0.95% |
Sources:[2] |
At the time of the 2017 census, what is today Murree District had 64,319 households and a population of 352,329. Murree had a sex ratio of 959 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 86.31% - 93.11% for males and 79.24% for females. 179,444 (50.93%) lived in urban areas. 80,259 (22.78%) were under 10 years of age. 548 (0.16%) were from religious minorities.[3]
At the time of the 2017 census, 90.84% of the population spoke Dhundi-Kairali, 3.12% Urdu, 2.05% Pashto and 1.87% Hindko as their first language. 1.08% of the population spoke a language classified as 'Other'. The dialect of this region is Pahari.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).
- ^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
- ^ "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.