Dera Ghazi Khan Division Explained

Dera Ghazi Khan Division
Native Name Lang:	ur
Settlement Type:	Division
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Punjab
Subdivision Type2:	Capital
Subdivision Name2:	Dera Ghazi Khan
Established Date:	1st July 1982
Unit Pref:	Metric
Area Total Km2:	38,778
Population As Of:	2023
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population Density Km2:	332.47
Population Urban:	2,771,711 (21.50%)
Population Rural:	10,120,754
Population Total:	12,892,465
Demographics Type1:	Literacy
Demographics1 Footnotes:	^[2]
Demographics1 Title1:	Literacy rate

Dera Ghazi Khan Division is an administrative division of the Punjab Province, Pakistan. The division was established in 1982.

History

During British rule, All the districts that later formed Dera Ghazi Khan Division, collectively formed a district of Multan Division. ^[3] Dera Ghazi Khan was made into a separate division in 1982 and took more than 60% land area of Multan division. The division system was abolished in 2000 but restored in 2008 after the restoration of democracy in the country.^[4]

List of the Districts

District	Capital	Area(km²)^[5]	Pop.(2023)	Density(ppl/km²) (2023)	Lit. rate(2023)
Taunsa	Taunsa	2,769	...	240	...
Kot Addu	Kot Addu	3,471	...	390	...
Layyah	Layyah	6,289	2,102,386	334.5	61.83%
Dera Ghazi Khan	Dera Ghazi Khan	11,922	3,393,705	285.8	46.78%
Muzaffargarh	Muzaffargarh	8,249	5,015,325	607.5	47.99%
Rajanpur	Rajanpur	12,319	2,381,049	193.3	36.09%
Jampur	Jampur	...	...	...	...

List of the Tehsils

Tehsil	Area(km²)	Pop.(2023)	Density(ppl/km²) (2023)	Lit. rate(2023)	Districts
Dera Ghazi Khan	2,012	1,443,409	717.40	47.25%	Dera Ghazi Khan District
De-Excluded Area D.G. Khan	...	...	...	...
Kot Chutta	1,802	904,836	502.13	38.61%
Muhammadpur	...	...	...	...	Jampur District
Jampur	2,322	1,012,039	435.85	38.07%
Dajal	...	...	...	...
Tribal Area	...	...	...	...
Chowk Sarwar Shaheed	1,785	414,578	232.26	55.50%	Kot Addu District
Kot Addu	1,686	1,072,180	635.93	58.19%
Karor Lal Esan	1,823	684,729	375.61	62.43%	Layyah District
Chaubara	2,754	299,082	108.60	58.42%
Layyah	1,712	1,118,575	653.37	62.34%
Jatoi	1,010	862,046	853.51	40.67%	Muzaffargarh District
Alipur	1,391	760,526	546.75	39.15%
Muzaffargarh	2,377	1,905,995	801.85	46.84%
Rojhan	2,905	474,077	163.19	...	Rajanpur District
Rajanpur	2,078	853,192	410.58	36.09%
De-Excluded Area Rajanpur	5,013	41,741	113.13	8.60%
Koh-e-Suleman	5,339	248,683	46.58	36.04%	Taunsa District
Taunsa	2,769	796,777	287.75	57.96%
Vehova	...	...	...	...

Demographics

Population

The division's population was 12.89 million in 2023 census.^[6]

See also

• Dera Ghazi Khan
• Louis Dane - In 1876 he was posted to the Punjab as assistant commissioner in Dera Ghazi Khan
• Mustafa Zaidi - served as assistant commissioner of Dera Ghazi Khan
• Andrew Jukes (missionary) He was sent to Baloch mission at Dera Ghazi Khan, where he stayed until 1906
• Robert Groves Sandeman - in 1866 he was appointed district officer of Dera Ghazi Khan

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: DISTRICT WISE CENSUS RESULTS CENSUS 2017. www.pbscensus.gov.pk. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170829164748/http://www.pbscensus.gov.pk/sites/default/files/DISTRICT_WISE_CENSUS_RESULTS_CENSUS_2017.pdf. 2017-08-29.
2. Web site: Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023.
3. https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V11_254.gif Dera Ghāzi Khān District Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 11, p. 248.
4. Web site: KHĀN . 2024-05-18 . Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia Online.
5. Web site: TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB .
6. Web site: Announcement of Results of 7th Population and Housing Census-2023 ‘The Digital Census’ Pakistan Bureau of Statistics . 2024-06-03 . www.pbs.gov.pk.