| Haripur District | |
| Native Name: | Urdu: {{nq|ضلع ہری پور Pushto; Pashto: {{script/Arabic| |
| Settlement Type: | District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Pakistan |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Subdivision Type2: | Division |
| Subdivision Name2: | Hazara |
| Seat Type: | Headquarters |
| Seat: | Haripur |
| Government Type: | District Administration |
| Leader Title: | Deputy Commissioner |
| Leader Name: | N/A |
| Leader Title1: | District Police Officer |
| Leader Name1: | N/A |
| Leader Title2: | District Health Officer |
| Leader Name2: | N/A |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 1725 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population As Of: | 2023 |
| Population Total: | 1,174,783 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | PST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5 |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Number of Tehsils |
| Blank Info Sec1: | 3 |
| Blank Name Sec2: | languages |
| Blank Info Sec2: | HindkoPashtoUrdu |
Haripur District (Hindko, Urdu: {{nq|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.[2] [3] Its headquarters are the city 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.
In the 2023 census, 3,901 (0.33%) people in the district were from religious minorities, mainly Christians.[4]
At the time of the 2023 census, 80.32% of the population spoke Hindko, 14.7% spoke Pashto, 2% Urdu, and 1.01% Punjabi as their first language.[5]
The literacy rate in the Haripur district is 72.21%, substantially higher than the literacy rate in the region of Hazara, which is 35.2%. The female literacy rate is only 61.08% compared to male literacy of 83.07%, and the urban literacy rate of 82.34% is higher than the rural rate of 70.59%.
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. Currently, Haripur District is divided into three Tehsils:
| Member of Provincial Assembly | Party Affiliation | Constituency | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akbar Ayub Khan | 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 |
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.[8] [9]
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.