Haripur District

Coordinates: 33°44′N 72°35′E / 33.733°N 72.583°E / 33.733; 72.583
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Haripur District
ضلع ہری پور
هريپور ولسوالۍ
Top: Khanpur Dam
Bottom: Buddhist remains at Badalpur
Haripur District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Haripur District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
CountryPakistan
ProvinceKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
DivisionHazara
HeadquartersHaripur
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • Deputy CommissionerN/A
 • District Police OfficerN/A
 • District Health OfficerN/A
Area
 • Total1,725 km2 (666 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[1]
 • Total1,003,031
 • Density580/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Number of Tehsils3
languagesHindko • Pashto • Urdu
Websiteharipur.kp.gov.pk

Haripur District (Hindko, Urdu: ضلع ہری پور) is a district in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Before obtaining the status of a district in 1991, Haripur was a tehsil of Abbottabad District.[2][3]: 5  Its headquarters is the city of Haripur.

Geography[edit]

Boundaries of Haripur

Geographically, the district borders the Abbottabad District to the northeast, Mansehra District to the northeast, the Punjab to the southeast, the Buner to the northwest and Swabi to the west. The federal capital of Islamabad is adjacent to the district in the south.

Demographics[edit]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1951 252,168—    
1961 273,507+0.82%
1972 417,561+3.92%
1981 479,031+1.54%
1998 692,228+2.19%
2017 1,001,515+1.96%
2023 1,174,783+2.70%
Sources:[4]

At the time of the 2017 census, the district had 161,839 households and a population of 1,003,031. Haripur had a sex ratio of 1010 females per 1000 males. 133,100 (13.29%) lived in urban areas. 24.91% of the population were under 10 years of age. 1,193 (0.12%) people in the district were from religious minorities, mainly Christians.[1]

Languages of Haripur district (2017)

  Hindko (80.84%)
  Pashto (11.84%)
  'Others' (mainly Kohistani) (2.09%)
  Urdu (1.83%)
  Punjabi (1.51%)
  Others (1.89%)

At the time of the 2017 census, 80.84% of the population spoke Hindko, 11.84% Pashto, 1.83% Urdu and 1.51% Punjabi as their first language. 2.09% of the population spoke languages classified as 'Other', mainly Kohistani.

The literacy rate in the Haripur district is 72.21%, substantially higher than the literacy rate in the region of Hazara, which is 35.2%. The female literacy rate is only 61.08% compared to male literacy of 83.07%, and urban literacy rate of 82.34% is higher than the rural rate of 70.59%.

Administration[edit]

The district of Haripur was a tehsil (sub-division) of the Abbottabad District until 1992. After that, it received the status of an independent district.[3] Currently, Haripur District is divided into three Tehsils:

  1. Haripur Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل ہری پور) (Pashto: هريپور تحصیل)[5]
  2. Khanpur Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل خانپور) (Pashto: خانپور تحصیل)
  3. Ghazi Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل غازی) (Pashto: غازي تحصیل)[6][5]

Provincial Assembly[edit]

Member of Provincial Assembly Party Affiliation Constituency Year
Akbar Ayub Khan Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-40 Haripur-I 2018
Arshad Ayub Khan Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PK-41 Haripur-II 2018
Faisal Zaman Independent PK-42 Haripur-III 2018

Education[edit]

Haripur District has two government-funded postgraduate colleges, providing higher-level education, as well as four-degree colleges for women. The Haripur University was established in 2012, which was initially a Haripur campus (established in March 2008) of the Hazara University The campus was upgraded to a full-fledged University of Haripur (UoH) in 2012 by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[7][8]

In addition, the project of Pak-Austria Fachhochschule Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology has also been functioning and is providing higher education since 2017 in village Mang at main Khanpur Road in Haripur.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "District Wise Population / Tables (Census - 2017) (see page 2 of 13 for Haripur District)" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Haripur District population per 2017 census of Pakistan". Citypopulation.de website. Archived from the original on 29 April 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  3. ^ a b 1998 District Census report of Haripur. Census publication. Vol. 91. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.
  4. ^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  5. ^ a b "Tehsils & Unions in the District of Haripur". National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB), Government of Pakistan website. Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  6. ^ "District Haripur". Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Department. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  7. ^ "Approval of upgrading sub-campus of the Hazara University in Haripur to university level". Dawn newspaper. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  8. ^ "University of Haripur". www.uoh.edu.pk.

Further reading[edit]

  • Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, ed (2009). Alexander the Great: A New History. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 47–48. ISBN 978-1-4051-3082-0. [1]
  • Tripathi (1999). History of Ancient India. Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. pp. 118–121. ISBN 978-81-208-0018-2. [2]
  • Narain, pp. 155–165
  • Curtius in McCrindle, Op cit, p 192, J. W. McCrindle; History of Punjab, Vol I, 1997, p 229, Punajbi University, Patiala, (Editors): Fauja Singh, L. M. Joshi; Kambojas Through the Ages, 2005, p 134, Kirpal Singh.

33°44′N 72°35′E / 33.733°N 72.583°E / 33.733; 72.583