Mansehra District

Mansehra District
ضلع مانسہرہ
مانسهره ولسوالۍ
Top: Malika Parbat and Lake Saiful Muluk
Bottom: View of Besal
Location of Mansehra District (including Torghar District) within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa prior to 2011
Location of Mansehra District (including Torghar District) within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa prior to 2011
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DivisionHazara
RegionPakhli
HeadquartersMansehra
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • Deputy CommissionerBilal Shahid Rao (BPS-18 PAS)
 • District Police OfficerZahoor Babar Afridi (BPS-19 PSP)
Area
 • Total4,579 km2 (1,768 sq mi)
Population
(2017)
 • Total1,555,742
 • Density340/km2 (880/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Area code0997
Number of union councils59
Number of Tehsils5
Websitemansehra.kp.gov.pk

Mansehra District (Urdu, Hindko: ضلع مانسہرہ) is a district in the Hazara Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. Mansehra city serves as the headquarters of the district.

Established as an independent district in 1976, it was previously a tehsil within the broader Hazara District. In 1993, a former subdivision of Mansehra: Battagram was separated as an independent district. Similarly, in 2011, another subdivision of Mansehra, known as Kala Dhaka, was separated which is now known as Torghar District.

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1951 260,631—    
1961 373,975+3.68%
1972 552,842+3.62%
1981 686,308+2.43%
1998 978,157+2.11%
2017 1,555,742+2.47%
2023 1,797,177+2.43%
Sources:

At the time of District the 2017 census, the district had 235,230 households and a population of 1,555,742. Mansehra had a sex ratio of 1015 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 62.56% - 75.25% for males and 50.41% for females. 144,898 (9.31%) lived in urban areas. 28.73% of the population were under 10 years of age. 427 (0.03%) people in the district were from religious minorities.

Languages of Mansehra district (2017)

 Hindko (66.48%)
 Pashto (17.02%)
 'Others' (mainly Dardic languages) (14.26%)
 Others (2.24%)

Similarly, 66.48% of the population spoke Hindko and 17.02% Pashto as their first language. 14.26% of the population spoke a language recorded as 'Others' on the census, mainly Kohistani languages.

Many of these, especially in the upper Kaghan Valley, are speakers of the Kohistani dialects. There are also speakers of the widely dispersed Gujari language, particularly in the Kaghan Valley. The local variety is intermediate between the eastern dialects of Gujari (spoken in Azad Kashmir) and the western group (from Chitral, Swat and Gilgit). There is also a small community in the village of Dana in Oghi Tehsil who speak the endangered Mankiyali language. Many people can write and speak English.[citation needed]

Constituencies

The district is represented in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly by elected MPAs who represent the following constituencies:

The district is represented in the National Assembly of Pakistan by two elected MNAs who represent the following constituencies:

Administrative divisions

Administrative subdivisions of Mansehra District plus district Kala Dhaka (Torghar)

Mansehra District consists of six tehsils, with Tanawal Tehsil separated from the other five in December 2022.

The Kala Dhaka tehsil was separated as Torghar District in 2011.

Mansehra

Mansehra Tehsil union councils:

Provincial Assembly

Member of Provincial Assembly Party Affiliation Constituency Year
Syed Ahmed Hussain Shah Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-30 Mansehra-I 2018
Babar Saleem Swati Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-30 Mansehra-II 2018
Muhammad Naeem Pakistan Muslim League (N) PK-30 Mansehra-III 2018
Nawabzada Farid Salahuddin Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-30 Mansehra-IV 2018
Sardar Muhammad Yousaf Zaman Pakistan Muslim League (N) PK-30 Mansehra-V 2018

Notable people

See also


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