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Vehari District
ضلع وہاڑی
District of Punjab
Top: Tomb of Tufail Mohammad
Bottom: Government Model High School, Vehari
Map of Punjab with Vehari District highlighted
Map of Punjab with Vehari District highlighted
Country Pakistan
Province Punjab
DivisionMultan
HeadquartersVehari, Jallah Jeem, Mailsi
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • Deputy CommissionerSyed Asif Shah
 • District Police OfficerMuhammad Essa Khan Sukhera
 • District Health OfficerN/A
Area
 • District of Punjab
4,364 km2 (1,685 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[1]
 • District of Punjab
3,430,421
 • Density790/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
 • Urban
782,915
 • Rural
2,647,506
Literacy
[2]
 • Literacy rate
  • Total:
    (59.10%)
  • Male:
    (66.43%)
  • Female:
    (51.57%)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Area code067
Websitevehari.punjab.gov.pk

Vehari District ( Punjabi: ضلع وہاڑی) is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city of Vehari is the capital of district while Burewala is the largest city and Jallah Jeem is the third largest city of the district.[3]

Administrative divisions

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The district of Vehari is administratively subdivided into following tehsils:[4]

Tehsil[5] Area

(km²)[6]

Pop.

(2023)

Density

(ppl/km²)

(2023)

Literacy rate

(2023)[7]

Union Councils
Jallah jeem ... ... ... ... ...
Burewala 1,295 1,204,255 929.93 63.98% ...
Mailsi 1,639 1,120,407 683.59 54.63% ...
Vehari 1,430 1,105,759 773.26 58.21% ...

History

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The district was created on 1 July 1976 out of the four tehsils of Multan District (Vehari, Burewala, Jallah Jeem and Mailsi). The name Vehari means low-lying settlement by a flood water channel. The district lies along the right bank of the river Sutlej, which forms its southern boundary.[8]

Demographics

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Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1951 558,536—    
1961 703,197+2.33%
1972 1,027,319+3.51%
1981 1,328,808+2.90%
1998 2,090,416+2.70%
2017 2,902,081+1.74%
2023 3,430,421+2.83%
Sources:[9]

As of the 2023 census, Vehari district has 543,036 households and a population of 3,430,421. The district has a sex ratio of 102.33 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 59.10%: 66.43% for males and 51.57% for females.[1][10] 940,756 (27.44% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age.[11] 782,915 (22.82%) live in urban areas.[1]

Religion in Vehari district (2023)[12]
Religion Percent
Islam
 
 99.12%
Christianity
 
 0.85%
Other
 
 0.03%
Religion in Vehari District
Religion 1941[13]: 62–63 [a] 2017[14] 2023[12]
Pop. % Pop. % Pop. %
Islam 213,413 75.92% 2,882,036 99.31% 3,397,920 99.12%
Hinduism [b] 43,866 15.6% 179 0.01% 226 0.01%
Sikhism 21,131 7.52% — — 66 0%
Christianity 2,679 0.95% 18,928 0.65% 29,043 0.85%
Ahmadi — — 924 0.03% 673 0.02%
Others [c] 20 0.01% 14 0% 263 0.01%
Total Population 281,109 100% 2,902,081 100% 3,428,191 100%

Languages of Vehari district (2023)[15]

  Punjabi (74.10%)
  Saraiki (19.12%)
  Urdu (5.83%)
  Others (0.95%)

At the time of the 2023 census, 74.10% of the population spoke Punjabi, 19.12% Saraiki and 5.83% Urdu as their first language.[15]

Geography

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The district is located between 29°36′N 71°44′E / 29.600°N 71.733°E / 29.600; 71.733 and 30°22′N 72°53′E / 30.367°N 72.883°E / 30.367; 72.883 and borders with Bahawalnagar and Bahawalpur on the southern side, with Pakpattan on the eastern, with Khanewal and Lodhran on western and with Sahiwal and Khanewal on northern side.

The total area of the district is 4,364 square kilometres (1,685 sq mi). It is about 93 kilometres (58 mi) in length and approximately 47 kilometres (29 mi) in breadth and it is sloping gently from northeast to southwest.

Agriculture

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141,000 acres of area was growing maize in 2015-16, increasing to 309,000 acres in 2019-20. The total production of maize stood at 428,000 tonnes in 2015-16, and rose to 1.1 million tonnes in 2019-20.[16]

Notable people

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Notes

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  1. ^ 1941 figures are for Malsi tehsil of Multan District, which roughly corresponds to present-day Vehari district. Historic district borders may not be an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.
  2. ^ 1941 census: Including Ad-Dharmis
  3. ^ Including Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, or not stated

References

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  1. ^ a b c "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 1" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  2. ^ "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  3. ^ "PAKISTAN: Punjab: Population of Districts". Citypopulation.de website. Archived from the original on 29 April 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Tehsils & Unions in the District of Vehari". National Reconstruction Bureau, Government of Pakistan website. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  5. ^ Divisions/Districts of Pakistan Archived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Note: Although divisions as an administrative structure has been abolished, the election commission of Pakistan still groups districts under the division names
  6. ^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).
  7. ^ "LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  8. ^ Khan, Ahmad Fraz (18 January 2021). "Multan's mangoes and multinationals". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  9. ^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  10. ^ "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 12" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  11. ^ "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 5" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  12. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 9" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  13. ^ "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME VI PUNJAB PROVINCE". Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  14. ^ "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  15. ^ a b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 11" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  16. ^ Khan, Ahmad Fraz (28 December 2020). "Vehari's tale of transition: from cotton to maize and livestock". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  17. ^ "Eid-i-Milad celebrated with fervour". The Nation (newspaper). Archived from the original on 6 March 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
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