Vehari District ضلع وہاڑی
District ofPunjab
Top: Tomb ofTufail Mohammad Bottom: Government Model High School,Vehari
Map of Punjab with Vehari District highlighted
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Division	Multan
Headquarters	Vehari,Jallah Jeem,Mailsi
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Deputy Commissioner	Syed Asif Shah
• District Police Officer	Muhammad Essa Khan Sukhera
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area
• District ofPunjab	4,364 km2 (1,685 sq mi)
Population  (2023)[1]
• District ofPunjab	3,430,421
• Density	790/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 zone	UTC+5 (PST)
Area code	067
Website	vehari.punjab.gov.pk

Vehari District (Punjabi:ضلع وہاڑی) is adistrict in thePunjab province ofPakistan. The city ofVehari is the capital of district whileBurewala is the largest city andJallah Jeem is the third largest city of the district.^[3]

The district of Vehari is administratively subdivided into followingtehsils:^[4]

The district was created on 1 July 1976 out of the four tehsils ofMultan District (Vehari,Burewala,Jallah Jeem andMailsi). 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]

As of the2023 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

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%

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

The district is located between29°36′N71°44′E / 29.600°N 71.733°E /29.600; 71.733 and30°22′N72°53′E / 30.367°N 72.883°E /30.367; 72.883 and borders withBahawalnagar andBahawalpur on the southern side, withPakpattan on the eastern, withKhanewal andLodhran on western and withSahiwal 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.

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]

• Doctor Mazhar Hussain Mazhar, Urdu Poet (Jallah Jeem)
• Mohammad Irfan, cricketer
• Chaudhry Nazir Ahmed Jatt, politician, memberNational Assembly of Pakistan from Vehari District^[17]
• Tufail Mohammad of Punjab Regiment, recipient ofNishan-e-Haider
• Saleem Sherwani, hockey player
• Waqar Younis, cricketer

• vehari.punjab.gov.pk
• Vehari's Wikimapia satellite map

• Vehari District
• Districts of Punjab, Pakistan

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