Kot Addu District

Kot Addu District

ضِلع کوٹ ادو
Kot Addu District ضِلع کوٹ ادو
District of Punjab
	A board representing boundary of district Kot Addu
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Division	Dera Ghazi Khan
Headquarters	Kot Addu
Government
• Type	Politicians
• Politicians	(Minister Mian Shabbir Ali Qureshi. MPA Mian Ahsan Ali Qureshi. Chairman Mian Hassan Ali Qureshi. Syed Fahaam Ali Naqvi Acknowledged as Talib Shah.)
• District Police Officer	Syed Hasnain Haider
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area
• Total	3,471 km2 (1,340 sq mi)
Population (2017)
• Total	1,347,501
• Density	390/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
Area code	0697
Number of Tehsils	2

Kot Addu District (Urdu: ضِلع کوٹ ادو) is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The district headquarter is Kot Addu city.

History

Kot Addu was established by Addu Khan, son of the Mirani chieftain Ghazi Khan, in the 15th century.^[2] Kot Addu was part of Muzaffargarh District as Kot Addu Tehsil until 2022, after which it upgraded to district level.^[3]

Administration

The district is administratively subdivided into two tehsils.

Tehsil^[4]	Area (km²)^[5]	Pop. (2023)	Density (ppl/km²) (2023)	Literacy rate (2023)^[6]	Union Councils
Chowk Sarwar Shaheed	1,785	414,578	232.26	55.50%
Kot Addu	1,686	1,072,180	635.93	58.19%	32

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1951	143,009	—
1961	184,639	+2.59%
1972	313,137	+4.92%
1981	449,493	+4.10%
1998	808,438	+3.51%
2017	1,347,501	+2.73%
Sources:^[7]

At the time of the 2017 census, Kot Addu district had 204,605 households and a population of 1,347,501. Kot Addu had a sex ratio of 953 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 55.25% - 66.89% for males and 43.10% for females. 254,147 (18.86%) lived in urban areas. 431,416 (32.02%) were under 10 years of age.^[1]

*Religion in Kot Addu District^[a]*
Religion	Population (1941)^[8]^: 62–63	Percentage (1941)	Population (2017)	Percentage (2017)
Islam	117,505	87.96%	1,341,598	99.56%
Hinduism ^[b]	14,303	10.71%	401	0.03%
Sikhism	1,720	1.29%	—	—
Christianity	52	0.04%	5,059	0.38%
Ahmadi	—	—	413	0.03%
Others ^[c]	5	0%	175	0.01%
Total Population	133,585	100%	1,347,501	100%

Languages of Kot Addu district (2017)^[1]

Saraiki (79.05%)

Punjabi (11.97%)

Urdu (5.30%)

Pashto (2.77%)

Others (0.91%)

At the time of the 2017 census, 79.05% of the population spoke Saraiki, 11.97% Punjabi, 5.30% Urdu and 2.77% Pashto as their first language.^[1]

Notes

^ 1941 figures are for Kot Addu tehsil of Muzaffargarh District, which roughly corresponds to present-day Kot Addu district. Historic district borders may not be an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.
^ 1941 census: Including Ad-Dharmis
^ Including Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, or not stated

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ چوہدری, بابر عزیز (23 March 2020). "کوٹ ادو آج بھی اپنی حالت سنورنے کا منتظر". Nawaiwaqt (in Urdu). Retrieved 29 September 2024.
^ "Punjab CM approves establishment of four new districts in province". Daily Times. 15 October 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ 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).
^ "LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME VI PUNJAB PROVINCE". Retrieved 21 July 2022.

[8] 1941 figures are for Kot Addu tehsil of Muzaffargarh District, which roughly corresponds to present-day Kot Addu district. Historic district borders may not be an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.

[ad-dharmi-10] 1941 census: Including Ad-Dharmis

[11] Including Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, or not stated

[2017census-1] "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

[2] چوہدری, بابر عزیز (23 March 2020). "کوٹ ادو آج بھی اپنی حالت سنورنے کا منتظر". Nawaiwaqt (in Urdu). Retrieved 29 September 2024.

[3] "Punjab CM approves establishment of four new districts in province". Daily Times. 15 October 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[4] 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

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

[6] "LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).

[7] "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

[Multan1941-9] "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME VI PUNJAB PROVINCE". Retrieved 21 July 2022.

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