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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.




Administration


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




Urban areas


The district has six urban areas.




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, 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. 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






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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. In 2023, the district had 281,628 households and a population of 1,950,954. Population is growing at the rate of 2.25% annually. Total urban population stands at 17.89% whereas rural population stands at 82.11%.




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




= Language

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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.




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.
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




See also


List of tehsils in Pakistan
List of districts in Pakistan




References






External links


Tehsils & Unions in the District of Narowal - Government of Pakistan
Profile of Narowal District

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