Multan Division

Multan Division
Multan Division
Division
	Map of Multan Division
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Capital	Multan
Government
• Type	Divisional Administration
• Commissioner	Ashfaq Ahmad Chaudhry (PAS)
• Regional Police Officer	N/A
Area
• Division	17,935 km2 (6,925 sq mi)
Population (2023)
• Division	14,085,102
• Density	790/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
• Urban	4,324,625 (30.70%)
• Rural	9,760,477
Literacy
• Literacy rate	Total:; (59.43%); Male:; (66.65%); Female:; (51.87%);
Website	multandivision.punjab.gov.pk

Multan Division is an administrative division of Punjab Province, Pakistan. It was created during British colonial rule in South Asia in 19th century.

List of the Districts

#	District^[3]	Headquarter	Area (km²)^[4]	Pop. (2023)	Density (ppl/km²) (2023)	Lit. rate (2023)
1	Khanewal	Khanewal	4,349	3,364,077	774.3	60.97%
2	Vehari	Vehari	4,364	3,430,421	787.7	59.10%
3	Multan	Multan	3,720	5,362,305	1,441.1	61.41%
4	Lodhran	Lodhran	2,778	1,928,299	693.5	51.68%

List of the Tehsils

#	Tehsil	Area (km²)^[5]	Pop. (2023)	Density (ppl/km²) (2023)	Lit. rate (2023)	Districts
1	Jahanian	549	384,822	700.95	65.65%	Khanewal District
2	Kabirwala	1,804	1,119,229	620.42	54.13%
3	Khanewal	784	987,445	1,259.50	63.60%
4	Mian Channu	1,212	872,581	719.95	64.39%
5	Dunyapur	889	571,333	642.67	55.66%	Lodhran District
6	Kahror Pacca	778	547,761	704.06	49.81%
7	Lodhran	1,111	809,205	728.36	50.10%
8	Jalalpur Pirwala	978	608,488	622.18	38.50%	Multan District
9	Multan City	304	2,555,486	8,406.20	73.65%
10	Multan Saddar	1,632	1,516,004	928.92	52.01%
11	Shujabad	806	682,327	846.56	53.87%
12	Jallah jeem	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Vehari District
13	Burewala	1,295	1,204,255	929.93	63.98%
14	Mailsi	1,639	1,120,407	683.59	54.63%
15	Vehari	1,430	1,105,759	773.26	58.21%

History

Multan Division was created during the British colonial rule in the South Asia. During British rule, All the districts that later formed Dera Ghazi Khan Division, collectively formed districts of Multan Division up till 1982 when new Dera Ghazi Khan Division was formed.^[6] Sahiwal region was part of the division till 2008 when separate Sahiwal division was created.^[7]^[8]

The division laid between 28°25' and 33°13 N and 69°19' and 73°39 E, the Sutlej divided it from Bahawalpur on the south-east, while the Indus river flowed partly through the Division and partly along its border to the west. The headquarters of the Commissioner were at Multan (or in the hot season, at the hill station of Fort Munro). The Division was abolished in 1884, but reconstituted in 1901.

According to the 1881 census of India the population of the area now included was 2,036,956, in 1891 it had risen to 2,277,605, and in 1901 to 3,014,675 and the total area was 76,500 KM square.

Demographics

Division's recorded population is 14 million in 2023 census report.^[9]^[10]^[11]

Notable People

Yousuf Raza Gilani (Ex-PM of Pakistan)
Rafique Rajwana (Ex Governor Punjab)
Shah Mehmood Qureshi (Foreign Minister of Pakistan)
Javed Hashmi (Senior Politician)
Inzamam ul Haq ( Crickter)
Waqar Younis (Cricketer)

References

^ "First digital census to start on Feb 1: commissioner". Business Recorder (newspaper). 8 January 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
^ "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
^ Divisions/Districts of Pakistan Archived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
Note: Although divisions as an administrative structure has been abolished, the election commission of Pakistan still groups districts under the division names
^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).
^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).
^ "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 11, page 248 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
^ "District Website". sahiwal.dc.lhc.gov.pk. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
^ Government. "Divisional government".
^ https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/punjab/pcr/table_1.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "Home | Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department" (PDF). health.punjab.gov.pk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-16.
^ "Punjab Government Plans to Carve a New District from Lahore". Archived from the original on 2010-06-03.

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[1] "First digital census to start on Feb 1: commissioner". Business Recorder (newspaper). 8 January 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2023.

[2] "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).

[3] Divisions/Districts of Pakistan Archived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
Note: Although divisions as an administrative structure has been abolished, the election commission of Pakistan still groups districts under the division names

[4] "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).

[5] "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB" (PDF).

[6] "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 11, page 248 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-12.

[7] "District Website". sahiwal.dc.lhc.gov.pk. Retrieved 2022-09-12.

[8] Government. "Divisional government".

[9] ttps://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/punjab/pcr/table_1.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[10] "Home | Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department" (PDF). health.punjab.gov.pk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-16.

[11] "Punjab Government Plans to Carve a New District from Lahore". Archived from the original on 2010-06-03.

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v t e Divisions of Pakistan
Balochistan	Kalat Makran Nasirabad Quetta Rakhshan Sibi Zhob Loralai
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Bannu Dera Ismail Khan Hazara Kohat Malakand Mardan Peshawar
Punjab	Bahawalpur Dera Ghazi Khan Faisalabad Gujranwala Gujrat Lahore Mianwali Multan Rawalpindi Sahiwal Sargodha
Sindh	Hyderabad Karachi Larkana Mirpur Khas Sukkur Shaheed Benazirabad
Islamabad Capital Territory	None
Azad Jammu & Kashmir	Mirpur Muzaffarabad Poonch
Gilgit Baltistan	Gilgit Baltistan Diamer

v t e Neighbourhoods of Multan
Administrations: Multan Division and Multan District
Tehsils	Jalalpur Pirwala Multan Sadr Shujabad
Cities	Jalalpur Pirwala Multan (capital) Shujabad
Towns & councils	Basti Maluk Bosan Budhla Sant Gulgasht Colony Lar Makhdoom Rashid Mehmood Kot Multan Cantt Mumtazabad Pull Dawa Qadirpur Ran Shah Rukan e Alam Sher Shah Willayatabad Colony Zakariya Town
Localities	Chah Nizam Walla Faridpur Gulzarpur Jalalabad Kumhar Mandi
Website: Multan District at NRB