Lahore Division

Lahore Division is an administrative division of Punjab Province, Pakistan. It comprises four Districts - Kasur, Lahore, Nankana Sahib and Sheikhupura. The Lahore Division is commanded by a Commissioner to manage the division. Under the Commissioner there are four Additional Commissioners. For each district there is a Deputy Commissioner. Under the reforms of 2000, this tier of government was abolished, but in 2008 divisions were restored.^[1][2][3]

History

Lahore Division was originally an administrative division of the Punjab Province of British India. It extended along the right bank of the Sutlej River from the Himalaya to Multan division, and comprised the six districts of Sialkot, Gujranwala, Lahore, Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Gujrat. The total area of the division was 44,430 km² (17,154 sq mi) and the population according to the 1901 census of India was 5,598,463.^[4] The commissioner for the division also exercised political control over the hill state of Chamba.

The Commissioner's headquarters were at Lahore and Dalhousie.The total population of the Division increased from 4,696,636 in 1881 to 5,321,535 in 1891, and 5,598,463 in 1901. The total area was 44,430 km² (17,154 square miles), and the density of population was 326 persons per square mile, compared with 208 for British territory in the Province as a whole. In 1901 Muslims numbered 3,332,175, or 60 percent of the total; while other religions included Hindus, 1,567,402; Sikhs, 661,320; Jains, 5,5,07; Buddhists, 6; Parsis, 228; and Christians, 31,815, of whom 25,248 were natives.^[5]

The division contained six districts:^[4]

Gurdaspur included a few square miles of mountainous country, enclosing the hill station of Dalhousie (highest, point, 7,687 feet); but otherwise the Division was flat. It contained 9,869 villages and 41 towns, of which the largest are Lahore (population, 202,964, including cantonment), Amristar(162,429), Sialkot (57,956), Gujranwala (29,224), Batala (27,365), and Gujrat (22,022). In commercial importance Lahore and Amritsar dwarfed all other towns in the Division, but Sialkot and Batala were considerably more than local centres. Besides the administrative charge of six British Districts, the Commissioner of Lahore had political control over the Native State of Chamba, which had an area of 8,330 km² (3,216 square miles) and a population (1901) of 127,834.^[4]

Demographics

Population

Sources:^[6]

According to the 2023 census, Lahore division had a population of 22,772,710^[7] roughly equal to the nation of Sri Lanka^[8] or the US state of Florida.^[9]

List of the Districts

List of the Tehsils

Independence

With the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, Lahore Division was divided among the two countries. with the eastern half becoming Amritsar District.

Constituencies

See also

• Divisions of Pakistan
  • Divisions of Punjab, Pakistan
  • Divisions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Divisions of Balochistan
  • Divisions of Sindh
• Districts of Pakistan
  • Districts of Punjab, Pakistan
  • Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Districts of Balochistan
  • Districts of Sindh

References

1. ^ Divisions/Districts of Pakistan Archived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ "Firewall Notification". health.punjab.gov.pk. Archived 2015-04-16 at the Wayback Machine.
3. ^ "Punjab Government Plans to Carve a New District from Lahore". 6 January 2009. Archived 2010-06-03 at the Wayback Machine.
4. ^ "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 16, page 96 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu. Archived 17 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
5. ^ "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 16, page 95 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu. Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
6. ^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998". Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
7. ^ "table 1". www.pbs.gov.pk. 2023.
8. ^ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 2011-10-01. Latvia 2,204,708, July 2011 est.
9. ^ "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 2011-09-30. New Mexico - 2,059,179
10. ^ "Lahore Division | Local Government and Community Development"^{[dead link]}
11. ^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB"
12. ^ "Nankana becomes district". Dawn. 10 May 2005. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
13. ^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB"