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Nowshera District
Nowshera District (Pashto: نوښار ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع نوشہرہ) is a district in the Peshawar Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The capital and district headquarter is Nowshera city.
Nowshera was previously a tehsil (subdivision) of Peshawar. In 1988, it received the elevated status of district. It is bordered by Peshawar District to the west, Mardan District to the north, Charsadda District to the northwest, Swabi District to the northeast, Kohat District to the south, Orakzai Agency to the southwest and Attock District to the east.
Prior to its establishment as a separate district between 1988 and 1990, Nowshera was part of Peshawar District. The district was also part of the Peshawar Division until the reforms of The Government of Pakistan.
Total area of Nowshera is 1,748 km2. The population density is 608 persons per square kilometre. The total agricultural area is 52,540 hectares. The main source of income of the region is agriculture.
As of the 2023 census, Nowshera district has 259,774 households and a population of 1,740,705. The district has a sex ratio of 103.78 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 56.78%: 68.53% for males and 44.49% for females. 478,985 (27.6% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 341,959 (19.64%) live in urban areas.
The major tribes of the district are the Pashtuns of the Durrani, Khattak, Yousafzai, Kakakhel Awan and Babar tribes. The most dominant being the Khattak tribe being 70-75% of the population and their largest subclan, the Akora Khattak
At the time of the 2023 census, 95.04% of the population spoke Pashto, 2.25% Hindko, 1.08% Punjabi and 0.99% Urdu as their first language.
Nowshera district is home to many educational institutions. This includes the University of Technology, Nowshera, Northern University, Nowshera, a campus of the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan in Pabbi town, and also a campus of the University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar in Jalozai town. The district also has a public sector medical college: Nowshera Medical College.
Nowshera District
Nowshera District (Pashto: نوښار ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع نوشہرہ) is a district in the Peshawar Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The capital and district headquarter is Nowshera city.
Nowshera was previously a tehsil (subdivision) of Peshawar. In 1988, it received the elevated status of district. It is bordered by Peshawar District to the west, Mardan District to the north, Charsadda District to the northwest, Swabi District to the northeast, Kohat District to the south, Orakzai Agency to the southwest and Attock District to the east.
Prior to its establishment as a separate district between 1988 and 1990, Nowshera was part of Peshawar District. The district was also part of the Peshawar Division until the reforms of The Government of Pakistan.
Total area of Nowshera is 1,748 km2. The population density is 608 persons per square kilometre. The total agricultural area is 52,540 hectares. The main source of income of the region is agriculture.
As of the 2023 census, Nowshera district has 259,774 households and a population of 1,740,705. The district has a sex ratio of 103.78 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 56.78%: 68.53% for males and 44.49% for females. 478,985 (27.6% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 341,959 (19.64%) live in urban areas.
The major tribes of the district are the Pashtuns of the Durrani, Khattak, Yousafzai, Kakakhel Awan and Babar tribes. The most dominant being the Khattak tribe being 70-75% of the population and their largest subclan, the Akora Khattak
At the time of the 2023 census, 95.04% of the population spoke Pashto, 2.25% Hindko, 1.08% Punjabi and 0.99% Urdu as their first language.
Nowshera district is home to many educational institutions. This includes the University of Technology, Nowshera, Northern University, Nowshera, a campus of the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan in Pabbi town, and also a campus of the University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar in Jalozai town. The district also has a public sector medical college: Nowshera Medical College.
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