Minchinabad Tehsil

Minchinabad Tehsil (Urdu: تحصِيل مِنچِن آباد), is a tehsil located in Bahawalnagar District, Punjab, Pakistan. The city of Minchinabad is the headquarters of the tehsil which is administratively subdivided into 25 Union Councils.^[2]

Minchinabad Tehsil تحصِيل مِنچِن آباد‬
Tehsil
Tehsil Municipal Administration logo
Location of Minchinabad Tehsil in Punjab, Pakistan
Coordinates: 30.1622° N, 73.5653° E
Country	Pakistan
Region	Punjab
District	Bahawalnagar
Capital	Minchinabad
Towns	1
Union councils	25
Government
• Assistant Commissioner	Wahab Hero
• Chief Officer	Syed Rashid Ghaznavi
Area
• Tehsil	1,818 km2 (702 sq mi)
Population  (2023)[1]
• Tehsil	603,125
• Density	330/km2 (860/sq mi)
• Urban	118,236 (19.60%)
• Rural	484,889 (80.40%)
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)

The smaller cities of Mandi Sadiq Gunj TC and McLeod Gunj TC are also included in Tehsil Minchinabad.

Through Minchinabad city passes a canal named Head Ford Wah passes and a suspended bridge on this canal built during the British Raj is worth seeing.

Geography

Minchinabad Tehsil has an area of 1,818 km².^[3]

Adjacent tehsils

• Depalpur Tehsil, Okara District (north)
• Fazilka Tehsil, Fazilka District, Punjab, India (northeast)
• Sri Ganganagar Tehsil, Sri Ganganagar District, Rajasthan, India (south)
• Karanpur Tehsil, Sri Ganganagar District, Rajasthan, India (southwest)
• Bahawalnagar Tehsil (southwest)
• Pakpattan Tehsil, Pakpattan District (northwest)

Demographics

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1951	118,846	—
1961	138,200	+1.52%
1972	185,985	+2.74%
1981	225,838	+2.18%
1998	354,261	+2.68%
2017	526,428	+2.11%
2023	603,125	+2.29%
Source: [4][3]

As of the 2023 census, Minchinabad Tehsil had a population of 603,125.^[5] According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, there are 526,428 people living in Minchinabad Tehsil and 83,173 households.^[1] Its population recorded in the 1998 census was 354,261.^[3]