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Upper Kohistan District
District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Upper Kohistan District (Urdu: ضلع کوہستان بالا) is a district in the Hazara Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[3][4][5][6][7]
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Overview and history
Before 2014, this region was part of the large Kohistan District. In 2014, the government bifurcated it into Upper Kohistan and Lower Kohistan districts.[3][8]
Demographics
As of the 2023 census, Upper Kohistan district has 63,712 households and a population of 422,947. The district has a sex ratio of 104.56 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 19.05%: 27.46% for males and 10.28% for females. 159,357 (42.59% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. The entire population lives in rural areas.[1]
In the 2023 census, 775 (0.21% of the surveyed population) people in the district are from religious minorities, mainly Christians.[10]
As of the 2023 census, 87.61% of the surveyed population speak Kohistani languages and 11.05% Shina as their first language.[11] The literacy rate in the district is 59% and 5% for men and women respectively (2023). Source: Baseline study report, Dasu Hydropower Project.
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Administrative Units
In 2014, Upper Kohistan District was subdivided into two Tehsils while on 31st of May, 2018, the Kundai tehsil was upgraded into subdivision and two more tehsils were created. With that change, the district had one subdivision and three tehsils in total as shown below:[12][13]
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References
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