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Khairpur District خيرپور ضلعو ضلع خیرپور
District of Sindh
Top: Kot Diji Fort Bottom: Faiz Mahal
Coordinates: 27°32′N 68°46′E / 27.533°N 68.767°E / 27.533; 68.767
Country	Pakistan
Province	Sindh
Division	Sukkur
Established	15 October 1955
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Deputy Commissioner	Syed Ahmed Fawad Shah (BPS-19 PCS)
• District Police Officer	Samiullah Soomro (BPS-19 PSP)
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area
• District of Sindh	15,910 km (6,140 sq mi)
Population
• District of Sindh	2,597,535
• Rank	5th:Sindh
• Density	160/km (420/sq mi)
• Urban	844,263
• Rural	1,753,272
Demonym	Khairpuri
Time zone	UTC+5 (PKT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5
Calling code	0243
Number of Tehsils	8
Number of Union Councils	89

Khairpur District (Sindhi: خيرپور ضلعو, Urdu: ضلع خیرپور) is a district in the Pakistani province of Sindh in Sukkur Division.

At the 2017 census, it was the fifth most populated district in the province after four districts of Karachi city, with 2.4 million inhabitants. The headquarters of the district is the city of Khairpur. The district is further divided into eight sub-districts: Khairpur Tehsil, Mirwah Tehsil, Kot Diji Tehsil, Kingri Tehsil, Sobho Dero Tehsil, Gambat Tehsil, Faiz Ganj Tehsil and Nara Tehsil.

Location

Khairpur district is located between middle and northern Sindh. It is bounded on the north by Shikarpur District and Sukkur District, on the east by India, on the south by Sanghar District and Nawabshah District, and on the west by Larkana District, Naushahro Feroze District and Indus River. The revised area of the district is 15,910 km.

Demographics

At the time of the 2017 census, Khairpur had a sex ratio of 939 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 49.15%: 62.08% for males and 35.49% for females. 777,006 (32.31%) lived in urban areas. 796,830 (33.13%) were under 10 years of age. In 2023, the district had 452,588 households and a population of 2,597,535.

Religion in present-day Khairpur district

Religion	Population (1941)	Percentage (1941)	Population (2017)	Percentage (2017)	Population (2023)	Percentage (2023)
Islam	253,690	82.96%	2,336,821	97.16%	2,513,753	96.78%
Hinduism	49,604	16.22%	66,489	2.76%	75,407	2.9%
Sikhism	1,616	0.53%	—	—	28	0%
Others	877	0.29%	1,880	0.08%	7,951	0.32%
Total Population	305,787	100%	2,405,190	100%	2,597,448	100%

The majority religion is Islam, as indicated by 96.78% of the population. Hinduism is practiced by 2.9% of the population, including those from Scheduled Castes.

Languages of Khairpur district (2023)

At the time of the 2023 census, 97.73% of the population spoke Sindhi as their first language.

Politics

The National Assembly.

The District of Khairpur is mapped into three constituencies at the national level. The constituencies include NA-208 Khairpur-I, NA-209 Khairpur-II, and NA-210 Khairpur-III.

Following is the list of the Member National Assemblies(MNAs) representing district in the National Assembly of Pakistan.

The Provincial Assembly

The District of Khairpur is represented by the seven constituencies in the Provincial Assembly of Sindh.

Administration

It has 8 tehsils, 76 Union councils, 11 towns, 6800 Villages and total population 1,546,587 (Male 810,448 and Female Population 736,139) according to (Census) 1998.

The eight tehsils of the district are:

• Faiz Ganj Tehsil
• Gambat Tehsil
• Khairpur Tehsil
• Kingri Tehsil
• Kot Diji Tehsil
• Nara Tehsil
• Sobho Dero Tehsil
• Mirwah Tehsil

People from Khairpur District

• Pir Pagaro - President of Pakistan Muslim League (F)
• Sachal Sarmast - eighteenth-Century Sufi Poet
• Qaim Ali Shah - former Chief Minister of Sindh Province
• Rais Muhammad Malook Shar - former MPA from constituency PS-29, First Taluka Faiz Ganj Chairman, and influential personality
• Ghous Ali Shah - former Defense Minister of Pakistan and Former Chief Minister of Sindh province
• Mir Ali Murad Talpur - former ruler of the princely state of Khairpur

Notes

1. Khairpur State
2. Including Jainism, Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Ad-Dharmis, or not stated

References

1. ^ "TABLE 1 : HOUSEHOLDS, POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Government of Pakistan website. 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
2. "Khairpur: then and now - Daily Times". Daily Times. 6 February 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
3. ^ "Khairpur District Information". Population Welfare Department, Government of Sindh website. Archived from the original on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
4. "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
5. "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2023)" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
6. ^ "District And Tehsil Level Population Summary - Khairpur District (2017 census)" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Government of Pakistan website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 March 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
7. "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME XII SINDH PROVINCE" (PDF).
8. ^ "Pakistan Census 2023" (PDF).
9. "Pakistan Census 2023" (PDF).

Sources

• 1998 District census report of Khairpur. Census publication. Vol. 86. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.

External links

• District of Khairpur

v t e Districts of Sindh
Provincial capital: Karachi
Hyderabad	Badin Sujawal Thatta Dadu Hyderabad Jamshoro Matiari Tando Allahyar Tando Muhammad Khan
Karachi	Karachi East Karachi South Karachi West Keamari Korangi Malir Nazimabad (Karachi Central)
Larkana	Jacobabad Kashmore Larkana Qambar Shahdadkot Shikarpur
Mirpur Khas	Mirpur Khas Tharparkar Umerkot
Shaheed Benazir Abad	Naushahro Feroze Sanghar Shaheed Benazir Abad
Sukkur	Ghotki Khairpur Sukkur

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