Haripur District ضلع ہری پور | |
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 Haripur District (red) inKhyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province |  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Division | Hazara |
| Established | 1991; 34 years ago (1991) |
| Preceded | Abbottabad District (1976-1991) |
| Headquarters | Haripur |
| Administrative Tehsils | 03
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| Government | |
| • Type | District Administration |
| • Deputy Commissioner | Shauzab Abbas |
| • Constituensy | NA-18 Haripur |
| Area | |
| 1,725 km2 (666 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 691 m (2,267 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 1,711 m (5,614 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 416 m (1,365 ft) |
| Population (2023)[1] | |
| 1,173,056 | |
| • Density | 680.0/km2 (1,761/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 147,765 |
| • Rural | 1,027,018 |
| Literacy | |
| • Literacy rate |
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| Time zone | UTC+05:00 (PKT) |
| • Summer (DST) | DSTis not observed |
| ZIP Code | |
| NWD (area) code | 0995 |
| ISO 3166 code | PK-KP |
| CNIC Code of Haripur District | 1330X-XXXXXXX-X |
| Website | haripur |
Haripur District (Hindko,Urdu:ضلع ہری پور) is adistrict in theHazara Division ofKhyber Pakhtunkhwa,Pakistan. Before obtaining the status of a district in 1991, Haripur was a tehsil ofAbbottabad District Its headquarters are the city ofHaripur. According to2023 Pakistani census population of Haripur District is 1,173,056 (1.1 million).
DuringBritish rule what now constitutes Haripur district was an administrative subdivision (tehsil) ofHazara District.[3]
The tehsil was described by theImperial Gazetteer of India, compiled over a century ago duringBritish rule as follows:
Tahsil of Hazāra District,North-West Frontier, lying between 33° 44′ and 34° 18′ N. and 72° 33′ and 73° 14′ E., with an area of 657 square miles. It is bounded on the north-west by theIndus. The tahsil consists of a sloping plain, from 1,500 to 3,000 feet high, through which theSiran andHarroh flow. Low hills are dotted here and there over the plain. The population in 1901 was 151,638, compared with 142,856 in 1891. It contains the town of HARIPUR (population, 5,578), the head-quarters; and 311 villages. The land revenue andcesses in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 1,72,000".[4]
On 30 June 1976, the Pakistani government bifurcated Hazara District, Mansehra Tehsil became a district in its own right and the two remaining tehsils Abbottabad and Haripur formed the district of Abbottabad.[5]
In 1991 the tehsil of Haripur was split off from Abbottabad to form Haripur District.[6]
The district of Haripur bordersAbbottabad District to the east,Mansehra District to the northeast, the Punjab to the southeast,Buner to the northwest, andSwabi to the west. The federal capital ofIslamabad is adjacent to the district in the south.
Haripur is traversed by several significant rivers, including the Indus, Sirin, Dauor, and Haro.[7]
TheHazara Waterfalls were discovered in 2021.[8]
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1951 | 252,168 | — |
| 1961 | 273,507 | +0.82% |
| 1972 | 417,561 | +3.92% |
| 1981 | 479,031 | +1.54% |
| 1998 | 692,228 | +2.19% |
| 2017 | 1,001,515 | +1.96% |
| 2023 | 1,174,783 | +2.70% |
| Sources:[9] | ||
As of the2023 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]
At the time of the 2023 census, 942,172 of the population spokeHindko, 172,471 spokePashto, 23,423Urdu, and 11,854Punjabi and 23,136 others as their first language.[10]
Main ethnic groups in Haripur district are:
| Religious group | 1941[13]: 22 | 2017[14] | 2023[15] | |||
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| Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |
Islam | 178,545 | 95.04% | 1,000,322 | 99.88% | 1,169,155 | 99.67% |
Hinduism | 7,278 | 3.87% | 13 | ~0% | 50 | 0.01% |
Sikhism | 2,011 | 1.07% | — | — | 22 | ~0% |
Christianity | 14 | 0.01% | 829 | 0.08% | 3,570 | 0.30% |
| Other | 6 | 0.01% | 351 | 0.04% | 259 | 0.02% |
| Total Population | 187,854 | 100% | 1,001,515 | 100% | 1,173,056[a] | 100% |
| Note: 1941 census data is for Haripur tehsil of erstwhile Hazara district, which roughly corresponds to contemporary Haripur district. District and tehsil borders have changed since 1941. | ||||||
The district of Haripur was atehsil (sub-division) of the Abbottabad District until 1992. After that, it received the status of an independent district.[16] Currently, Haripur District is divided into threeTehsils:
| Tehsil | Name (Urdu)(Pashto) | Area (km²)[17] | Pop. (2023) | Density (ppl/km²) (2023) | Literacy rate (2023)[18] | Union Councils |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghazi Tehsil | (Urdu:تحصیل غازی)[19][20] | 595 | 151,839 | 255.19 | 69.69% | |
| Haripur Tehsil | (Urdu:تحصیل ہری پور)[20] | 834 | 836,058 | 1,002.47 | 76.07% | |
| Khanpur Tehsil | (Urdu:تحصیل خانپور) | 296 | 186,886 | 631.37 | 73.76% |
There were 30 Union Councils in 1962 and in 1979, 25 UC were reconstituted.
| Member of Provincial Assembly | Party affiliation | Constituency | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akbar Ayub Khan | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | PK-46 Haripur-I | 2024 |
| Arshad Ayub Khan | PK-47 Haripur-II | ||
| Faisal Zaman | PK-48 Haripur-III |
Haripur District has two government-funded postgraduate colleges, providing higher-level education, as well as four-degree colleges for women. TheHaripur University was established in 2012, which was initially a Haripur campus (established in March 2008) of theHazara University .The campus was upgraded to a full-fledged University of Haripur (UoH) in 2012 by theGovernment of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[21][22]
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.[citation needed]
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain.Gujar populations are spread all over the country in urban and rural areas of all the five provinces. They are found everywhere in Hazara division especially in the Mansehra, Haripur and Abbottabad districts. They once owned a tract of 84 villages in the center of Hazara including the Channai Hazara. The chief of Gujar Tribe of Hazara was the ever-mentioned Mokaddam Mir Ahmad Gujar, the jagirdar of Kot Najibulla (Watson, 1907). Gujars are in simple majority in Mansehra and Haripur Districts, especially in Kaghan Valley.
The erstwhile Hazara division, incorporating Abbottabad, Haripur, extending further into Swat have a substantial population of Gujjars a pastoral tribe.
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