Admeenistrative units o Pakistan

The admeenistrative units o Pakistan consist o fower provinces, ane federal caipital territory, twa autonomous territories an a group o federally admeenistered tribal auries.^[1] Belaw this top tier, there are fower mair tiers o govrenment includin 27 diveesions, mair nor a hunder destricts (zillas), mair nor fower hunder sub-destricts cried tehsils, an several thoosan union cooncils.

Structur o admeenistrative units

Pakistan's admeenistrative units are as follaes: Template:Pakistan Administrative Units Image Map

No.	Admeenistrative unit	Local name	Caipital	Population[2]	Aurie (km²)[2]	Population density (inh. per km²)	Map
1	Balochistan (province)	بلوچستان‬	Quetta	4.8%	39.3%	18.9
2	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (province)	خیبرپختونخوا‬	Peshawar	12.9%	8.5%	238.1
3	Punjab (province)	پنجاب‬	Lahore	53.7%	23.3%	358.5
4	Sindh (province)	سنڌ سندھ‬	Karachi	22.2%	16.0%	216
5	Islamabad Caipital Territory	وفاقی دارالحکومت‬	Islamabad	0.6%	0.1%	888.8
6	Federally Admeenistered Tribal Auries	وفاقی قبائلی علاقہ جات‬	Peshawar	2.3%	3.1%	116.7
7	Azad Kashmir	آزاد کشمیر‬	Muzaffarabad	2.2%[3]	1.5%[3]	223.6
8	Gilgit-Baltistan	گلگت - بلتستان‬ གིལྒིཏ་བལྟིསྟན	Gilgit	1.3%	8.2%	24.8
	Pakistan	پاکستان‬	Islamabad	182,000,000	881,889	??

The provinces are dividit intae 105 destricts cried (zillahs) (Urdu: ضلع‬‎). Zillahs are further subdividit intae sub-destricts cried tehsils (Urdu: تحصیل‬‎) (roughly equivalent tae coonties). Tehsils are uised in aw provinces except in Sindh province whare the term taluka (Urdu: تعلقہ‬‎) predominates. Tehsils mey contain veellages or municipalities. Pakistan haes ower five thoosan local govrenments. Syne 2001, these hae been led bi democratically electit local cooncils, each heidit bi a Nazim (Urdu: ناظم‬‎) (the wird means "supervisor" in Urdu, but is sometimes translatit as Mayor). Weemen hae been allottit a minimum o 33% seats in these cooncils; thare is nae upper limit tae the number o weemen in these cooncils. Some destricts, incorporatin lairge metropolitan auries, are cried Ceety Destrict. A Ceety Destrict mey contain subdiveesions cried Touns an Union Cooncils.

See an aw

• Diveesions o Pakistan
• Local govrenment in Pakistan
  • Destricts o Pakistan
  • Tehsils o Pakistan
  • Union cooncils o Pakistan
• Pakistani subnaitional abbreviations
• ISO 3166-2:PK