- Source: Nazimabad District
Nazimabad District (Urdu: ضلع ناظم آباد ), formerly Karachi Central District, is an administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan created in 1996. According to 2023 Pakistani census population of Nazimabad District is 3,822,325 (3.8 million).
History
The district was abolished in 2000 and divided into four towns namely Gulberg Town, Liaquatabad Town, New Karachi Town, and North Nazimabad Town.
On 11 July 2011, the Government of Sindh restored Karachi Central District again.
Karachi Central District has the following dehs: Gujhro (P), in the talukas of Gulberg and Liaquatabad, and Kari Lakhi, in the taluka of North Nazimabad.
In 2022, it was divided into five towns namely Gulberg Town, Liaquatabad Town, Nazimabad Town, New Karachi Town, and North Nazimabad Town respectively.
In 2023, the Government of Sindh renamed Karachi Central District to Nazimabad District to align with its famous town name.
Union committees
The following is a list of the union councils of Nazimabad District, and their respective neighbourhoods and suburban localities. Nazimabad District has a total of five towns and 45 union councils.
= Gulberg Town
== Liaquatabad Town
== Nazimabad Town
== New Karachi Town
== North Nazimabad Town
=Demographics
At the time of the 2017 census, Nazimabad had a sex ratio of 900 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 81.52%: 81.90% for males and 81.13% for females. The entire population lived in urban areas. 627,927 (21.13%) were under 10 years of age. In 2023, the district had 652,776 households and a population of 3,822,325.
The majority religion is Islam, with 98.33% of the population. Christianity is practiced by 1.27% of the population.
At the time of the 2023 census, 80.2% of the population spoke Urdu, 4.04% Punjabi, 4.65% Pashto, 3.88% Saraiki, 2.22% Sindhi, 0.88% Balochi and 0.82% Hindko as their first language.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Nazimabad District
- Nazimabad
- North Nazimabad
- North Nazimabad Town
- Karachi Division
- New Karachi Town
- Orangi District
- Nazimabad Town
- List of renamed places in Pakistan
- Administrative divisions of Karachi
