Khairpur District

Khairpur District () is a district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The district has an area of 15,910 square kilometres and is headquartered at the city of Khairpur.

Location

Khairpur District is located in northern Sindh and is bounded on the north by Shikarpur and Sukkur, on the east by India, on the south by Sanghar and Nawabshah and on the west by Larkana and Naushahro Feroz and derives its name from the town

Demographics

According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, the district had a population of 1,546,587 of which 23.23% was urban. The average annual growth rate of the population is 2.71%. As per definition of Board of Revenue Sindh, a place of human habitation having at least ten houses is called a settlement. There are 1,709 rural settlements in the district having population of 200 to 1000+ people.

Following are the demographic indicators of the district as per the 1998 census of Pakistan (Hindus and Christians as well as Urdu speakers are mainly concentrated in the urban areas):

Religion:

• Islam: 96.86%
• Hinduism: 2.93%
• Christianity: 0.09%
• Ahmaddiya: 0.07%
• Others: 0.04%

Languages:

• Sindhi: 95.15%
• Punjabi: 2.16%
• Urdu:1.7%
• Baluchi:0.70%
• Seraiki:0.34%
• Pashto:0.25%
• Others: 0.33%

Government

The district is divided into eight Taluka:

• Khairpur
• Nara
• Kot Diji
• Sobho Dero
• Mirwah
• Kingri
• Faiz Ganj
• Gambat

History

Khairpur State was ruled by Talpur Mirs (ameers) of the Talpur dynasty from 1783 to 1955. In 1947, when...
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