Narowal District

Narowal District

ضِلع نارووال
Narowal District ضِلع نارووال
District of Punjab
	Gurudwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur
	Map of Narowal in Punjab
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Division	Gujranwala
Headquarters	Narowal
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Deputy Commissioner	Muhammad Shahrukh
• District Police Officer	N/A
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area
• District of Punjab	2,337 km2 (902 sq mi)
• Rank	113th in Pakistan
Population (2023)
• District of Punjab	1,950,954
• Rank	42nd in Pakistan
• Density	830/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
• Rank	29th in Pakistan
• Urban	349,095 (17.89%)
• Rural	1,601,859
Literacy
• Literacy rate	Total:; (75.28%); Male:; (79.89%); Female:; (70.49%);
Current constituencies
• Constituencies	NA:; NA-75 Narowal-I; NA-76 Narowal-II; PP:; PP-54 Narowal-I; PP-55 Narowal-II; PP-56 Narowal-III; PP-57 Narowal-IV; PP-58 Narowal-V;
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
Area code	0542
Number of Tehsils	3
Number of Universities	4
Number of Medical Colleges	1
Website	narowal.punjab.gov.pk

Narowal District (Punjabi and Urdu: ضِلع نارووال), located in upper punjab, is a district in the province of Punjab of Pakistan. Narowal city is the capital of the district. During the British rule, Narowal was the town of Raya Khas tehsil of Sialkot District. Narowal District formed in 1991, when the two tehsils of Narowal and Shakargarh were split off from Sialkot District.^[3]

Administration

The district is administratively divided into the following three tehsils (subdivisions), which contain a total of 74 Union Councils:^[4]

Tehsil^[5]	Area (km²)^[6]	Pop. (2023)	Density (ppl/km²) (2023)	Literacy rate (2023)^[7]	Union Councils
Shakargarh	835	769,339	921.36	76.28%	28
Narowal	1,065	680,402	638.88	76.78%	28
Zafarwal	437	501,213	1,146.94	71.72%	26

Urban areas

The district has six urban areas.

City	Area (km²)	Pop. (2023)	Density (ppl/km²) (2023)	Literacy rate (2023)
Narowal	200	130,692	...	...
Shakargarh	...	126,742	...	...
Zafarwal	10	52,639	...	...
Qila Sobha Singh	...	19,671	...	...
Baddomalhi	...	19,351	...	...
Talwandi Bhindran	...	13,000	...	...

Geography

The district is bounded by on the northwest by Sialkot, by India on the north by Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, on the southeast by the Gurdaspur district and Pathankot district, on the south by Amritsar district, and on the southwest by Sheikhupura district in Pakistan.

The total area of the district is approximately 2,337 square kilometres. Prior to the creation of Zafarwal Tehsil in July 2009,^[8] Narowal Tehsil occupied 1,065 square kilometres while the remaining area (1,272 square kilometres) fell in Shakargarh Tehsil. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, Narowal District's population was 1,256,097, of which only 12.11% were urbans.^[9] According to the 2017 census, total population of District Narowal is 1.709 million. Male population is 0.853 m (49.96%) and Female population is 0.855 m (50.04%).[1]

Demography

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1951	512,475	—
1961	550,425	+0.72%
1972	834,501	+3.86%
1981	908,977	+0.95%
1998	1,265,097	+1.96%
2017	1,707,575	+1.59%
2023	1,950,954	+2.25%
Sources:^[10]

At the time of the 2017 census, Narowal had a sex ratio of 1033 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 73.51% - 79.40% for males and 67.97% for females. 256,657 (15.03%) lived in urban areas. 461,876 (27.05%) were under 10 years of age.^[11] In 2023, the district had 281,628 households and a population of 1,950,954.^[1] Population is growing at the rate of 2.25% annually. Total urban population stands at 17.89% whereas rural population stands at 82.11%.

Religion

Religion in Narowal district (2023) ^[12]
Religion			Percent
Islam			97.48%
Christianity			2.22%
Other or not stated			0.3%

In 2023, 97.48% of population adheres to Islam whereas 2.22% adheres of Christianity.

*Religion in Narowal District*^[a]
Religion	Population (1941)^[13]^: 60	Percentage (1941)	Population (2023)^[12]	Percentage (2023)
Islam	296,582	53.05%	1,901,645	97.48%
Hinduism	170,883	30.56%	833	0.04%
Sikhism	67,267	12.03%	125	0%
Christianity	24,127	4.32%	43,421	2.22%
Ahmadi	—	—	4,491	0.2%
Others	244	0.04%	379	0%
Total Population	559,103	52.14%	1,950,769	100%

Language

Languages of Narowal district (2023) ^[12]

Punjabi (94.29%)

Urdu (3.05%)

Mewati (2.28%)

Others (0.38%)

At the time of the 2023 census, 94.29% of the population spoke Punjabi, 3.05% Urdu, and 2.28% Mewati as their first language.^[14]

Education

List of Universities in Narowal:

University of Narowal (UON)
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Narowal campus
University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Narowal campus
Virtual University of Pakistan
University of Gujrat(UOG), Narowal campus.University of Narowal used to be called as University of Gujrat(UOG)but later on UON got independent and now there is not a single Campus of University of Gujrat in Narowal.

Notable people

Dev Anand, Bollywood actor, director & producer
Muhammad Tariq Anis : Ex MPA and MNA
Daniyal Aziz, State Minister of Broadcasting
Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Punjabi poet
Anwar Aziz Chaudhry, politician
Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, justice
Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani revolutionary poet.^[15]
Abrar-ul-Haq, singer-songwriter, philanthropist, politician
Syed Saeed ul Hassan, Minister of Punjab for Auqaf and Religious Affairs
Adnan Ilyas, cricketer
Ahsan Iqbal, Interior Minister of Pakistan
Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan, longest serving Parliamentarian in the history of Pakistan.
Rajendra Kumar, film actor, director, producer, recipient of Padma Shri (1969)
Naseer Ahmad Malhi, one of the founding fathers of Pakistan and the first education minister of Pakistan
Chaudhry Abdul Rahim, politician
Des Raj, cricket umpire
Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, writer
Gurbachan Singh Salaria, Indian Army Officer
Kidar Sharma, Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, and Lyricist of Hindi films.
Z. A. Suleri, political journalist

References

^ ^a ^b "TABLE 1 : HOUSEHOLDS, POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2023.
^ "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
^ "Narowal - Punjab Portal". Retrieved 15 December 2016.
^ "Tehsils & Unions in the District of Narowal". National Reconstruction Bureau, Government of Pakistan. Archived from the original on 1 April 2008.
^ 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).
^ "Zafarwal to become tehsil on July 1". Dawn. 2 February 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
^ Urban Resource Centre - Population table Archived 2006-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ ^a ^b ^c "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2023)" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Cite error: The named reference "2023 census" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^ "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME VI PUNJAB PROVINCE". Retrieved 21 August 2022.
^ "Pakistan Census 2023" (PDF).
^ "His family". Dawn. Pakistan. 11 February 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2019.

^ 1941 figures are for Narowal tehsil of Sialkot district and Shakargarh tehsil of Gurdaspur district, which roughly matches present-day district borders. District was incorporated to take into account population increases during the post-independence era, which has resulted in various bifurcations of districts and tehsils across the historic Punjab Province region.

External links

32°13′N 74°57′E / 32.217°N 74.950°E / 32.217; 74.950

[2023census-1] "TABLE 1 : HOUSEHOLDS, POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2023.

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

[3] "Narowal - Punjab Portal". Retrieved 15 December 2016.

[4] "Tehsils & Unions in the District of Narowal". National Reconstruction Bureau, Government of Pakistan. Archived from the original on 1 April 2008.

[5] 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

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

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

[8] "Zafarwal to become tehsil on July 1". Dawn. 2 February 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2010.

[9] Urban Resource Centre - Population table Archived 2006-05-13 at the Wayback Machine

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

[2017census-11] "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

[2023_census-12] "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2023)" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Cite error: The named reference "2023 census" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

[Census1941-14] "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME VI PUNJAB PROVINCE". Retrieved 21 August 2022.

[15] "Pakistan Census 2023" (PDF).

[16] "His family". Dawn. Pakistan. 11 February 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2019.

[13] 1941 figures are for Narowal tehsil of Sialkot district and Shakargarh tehsil of Gurdaspur district, which roughly matches present-day district borders. District was incorporated to take into account population increases during the post-independence era, which has resulted in various bifurcations of districts and tehsils across the historic Punjab Province region.

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