Haripur District Explained

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 Type2:Division
Subdivision Name2:Hazara Division
Seat Type:Headquarters
Seat:Haripur
Parts Type:Administrative Tehsils
Parts Style:coll,para
Parts:03
P1:Ghazi Tehsil
Haripur Tehsil
Khanpur Tehsil
Government Type:District Administration
Leader Title:Deputy Commissioner
Leader Name:Shauzab Abbas
Leader Title1:Constituensy
Leader Name1:NA-18 Haripur
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Total Km2:1725
Elevation Max M:1711
Elevation Min M:416
Elevation M:691
Population As Of:2023
Population Total:1,173,056
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Urban:147765
Population Rural:1,027,018
Population Demonym:Karachiite
Timezone1:PKT
Utc Offset1:+05:00
Timezone1 Dst:DST is not observed
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code
Postal Code:02262
Area Code Type:NWD (area) code
Area Code:0995
Iso Code:PK-KP
Established Title:Established
Established Title1:Preceded
Established Date1:Abbottabad District (1853-1991)
Blank2 Info:1330X-XXXXXXX-X
Blank2 Name:CNIC Code of Haripur District

Haripur District (Hindko, ur|{{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 Its headquarters are the city of Haripur. According to 2023 Pakistani census population of Haripur District is 1,173,056 (1.1 million).

Geography

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.

Demographics

As of the 2023 census, Haripur district has 192,451 households and a population of 1,174,783. The district has a sex ratio of 101.43 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 74.88%: 84.13% for males and 65.61% for females. 282,230 (24.06% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 147,765 (12.58%) live in urban areas.[1]

Religion

Religion! colspan="2"
1941[2] 2017[3] 2023[4]
178,54595.04%1,000,32299.88%1,169,15599.67%
7,2783.87%13~0%500.01%
2,0111.07%22~0%
140.01%8290.08%3,5700.30%
Other60.01%3510.04%2590.02%
Total Population187,854100%1,001,515100%1,173,056100%

Languages

At the time of the 2023 census, 942,172 of the population spoke Hindko, 172,471 spoke Pashto, 23,423 Urdu, and 11,854 Punjabi and 23,136 others as their first language.[5]

Administration

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.[6] Currently, Haripur District is divided into three Tehsils:

  1. Haripur Tehsil (ur|{{nq|تحصیل ہری پور)
  2. Khanpur Tehsil (ur|{{nq|تحصیل خانپور)
  3. Ghazi Tehsil (ur|{{nq|تحصیل غازی) [7] [8] There were 30 Union Councils in 1962 and in 1979, 25 UC were reconstituted.

Provincial Assembly

Member of Provincial Assembly Party Affiliation Constituency Year
Akbar Ayub Khan PK-40 Haripur-I2024
Arshad Ayub Khan Pakistan Tehreek-e-InsafPK-41 Haripur-II2024
Umer Ayub Khan Pakistan Tehreek-e-InsafNA-18 Haripur2024
Adeel Iqbal Pakistan Tehreek-e-InsafPK-42 Haripur-III2024

Education

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.[9] [10]

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.

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 1 . www.pbscensus.gov.pk . Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  2. Web site: Census of India, 1941. Vol. 10, North-West Frontier Province . saoa.crl.28215543 . 23 September 2021 . 1941 . 22.
  3. Web site: Pakistan Census 2017 District-Wise Tables: Haripur District . Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  4. Web site: 7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 9 . www.pbscensus.gov.pk . Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  5. Web site: 7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 11 . Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  6. Book: 1998 District Census report of Haripur. Islamabad. Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. Census publication . 91. 2000.
  7. Web site: District Haripur . 2023-04-30 . Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Department . en-US.
  8. Web site: Tehsils & Unions in the District of Haripur. dead. 9 February 2012. 29 October 2023. National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB), Government of Pakistan website . https://web.archive.org/web/20120209041051/http://www.nrb.gov.pk:80/lg_election/union.asp?district=75&dn=Haripur.
  9. News: 23 March 2012 . Approval of upgrading sub-campus of the Hazara University in Haripur to university level . 30 October 2023 . Dawn newspaper.
  10. Web site: University of Haripur . www.uoh.edu.pk . en.