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Hub District
District in Balochistan, Pakistan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hub District (Balochi, Lasi, Urdu: ضِلع حَب) is a coastal administrative district located in the southern part of Balochistan Province of Pakistan.[3] The district was created after bifurcation of Lasbela District in 2022.[3][4]
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Hub district is bordered by Arabian sea to the south, Lasbela district to the west, Karachi division to the southeast, Dadu district to the northeast, Jamshoro district to the east, and Khuzdar to the north and northwest.
Its Provincial Assembly seat is PB-21 and National Assembly seat is NA-257 shared with the districts Awaran and Lasbela.
Sardar Muhammad Saleh Bhootani confirmed that the creation of Hub District is a long-standing demand of his people of PB-49 constituency[3] and he thanked chief minister of Balochistan Abdul Quddus Bizenjo for approving the creation of this district.[3]
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Administrative divisions
The district of Hub is administratively divided in five tehsils as:
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Demographics
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Population
According to 2023 population census, the district had a population of 382,885. However, At the time of the 2017 census, Hub district had 49,449 households and a population of 339,640. Hub had a sex ratio of 913 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 35.90% - 45.37% for males and 25.49% for females. 227,872 (67.09%) lived in urban areas. 105,437 (31.04%) were under 10 years of age.[1]
Religion
In the 2017 census, Islam was the predominant religion with 97.93%, while Hindus were 1.67% of the population.[8]
Language
At the time of the 2017 census, 58.31% of the population spoke Balochi, 18.51% Sindhi, 15.80% Brahui, 4.08% Pashto and 1.22% Saraiki as their first language.
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