Lodhran District
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Lodhran District (Template:Langx), is a district in the province of Punjab, Pakistan, with the city of Lodhran as its capital. Located on the northern side of the River Sutlej, it is bounded to the north by the districts of Multan, Khanewal and Vehari, to the south by Bahawalpur, to the east lie the districts of Vehari and Bahawalpur; while district Multan lies on the western side.
Lodhran was split off as a separate district from Multan in 1991.[1] It has the lowest Human Development Index of all districts in Punjab, and is among the thirty poorest districts in Pakistan.[2]Template:Rp It is a well-known cotton-growing area.[1]
Administrative divisions
Lodhran District is spread over an area of 2,778 square kilometres and is subdivided into three tehsils (Lodhran, Kahror Pakka and Dunyapur) which contain a total of 73 Union Councils:[3]
| Tehsil[4] | Area
(km²)[5] |
Pop.
(2023) |
Density
(ppl/km²) (2023) |
Literacy rate
(2023)[6] |
Union Councils |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunyapur[3] | 889 | 571,333 | 642.67 | 55.66% | 22 |
| Kahror Pacca[3] | 778 | 547,761 | 704.06 | 49.81% | 23 |
| Lodhran[3] | 1,111 | 809,205 | 728.36 | 50.10% | 28 |
Demographics
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As of the 2023 census, Lodhran district has 323,866 households and a population of 1,928,299. The district has a sex ratio of 107.26 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 51.68%: 60.63% for males and 42.12% for females.[7][8] 540,664 (28.07% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age.[9] 325,053 (16.86%) live in urban areas.[7]
| Religious group |
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| Islam File:Star and Crescent.svg | 175,642 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 1,695,600 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 1,917,852 | 99.56% |
| Hinduism File:Om.svgTemplate:Efn | 33,246 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 93 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 97 | 0.01% |
| Sikhism File:Khanda.svg | 3,519 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | — | — | 24 | 0% |
| Christianity File:Christian cross.svg | 218 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 3,227 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 7,613 | 0.40% |
| Ahmadi | — | — | 710 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 656 | 0.03% |
| Others Template:Efn | 49 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 63 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 93 | 0% |
| Total Population | 212,674 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 1,699,693 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 1,926,357 | 100% |
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At the time of the 2023 census, 73.81% of the population spoke Saraiki, 15.23% Punjabi, 6.41% Urdu, and 2.19% Mewati as their first language.[13]
The most widely spoken first language is Saraiki (Template:Sigfig%), which is used by the major indigenous social groups of the Joya , Baloch, Awan, Arain, Kanju, Uttera/Uttero, Ghallu, Bhutta, Lodhra, Metla, Chaner Syed, Qureshi, Tareen and Pathan. Additionally, Punjabi is spoken by about Template:Sigfig%. The percentage of the district's population who declared Urdu as their language at the 1998 census was Template:Sigfig%; this includes these Haryanvi speakers as well as other, smaller, groups of Muhajirs such as the Mughal. Additionally, the nomadic Od people are speakers of the Od language, while Pashto (0.2%) is spoken by Pashtuns.[14][2]Template:Rp
Notes
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References
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- ↑ Divisions/Districts of Pakistan Template:Webarchive Note: Although divisions as an administrative structure has been abolished, the election commission of Pakistan still groups districts under the division names
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- ↑ Lodhran District - Population Details Citypopulation.de website, Retrieved 6 April 2023
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