Dera Gazi Khan District

Dera Ghazi Khan District ضِلع ڈيره غازى خان
District
Location of Dera Ghazi Khan District (highlighted in orange) within Punjab.
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Headquarters	Dera Ghazi Khan
Government
• District Coordination Officer	Iftikhar Ali Sahu
• District Police Officer	Ch.Muhammad Saleem
Population (1998)
• Total	1,643,118
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)
Number of Tehsils	2
Website	http://dgkhan.gop.pk/

Dera Ghazi Khan (ضِلع ڈيره غازى خان), is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Its capital is Dera Ghazi Khan city. The district contains a long narrow strip of country, 198 km. in length, sloping gradually from the hills which form its western boundary to the riverIndus on the east.

The Sulaiman Mountains rise to a height of 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in the north of the district.

The district is divided into two tehsils and one De-Excluded Area which are divided into a total of sixty Union Councils:

The city was founded at the close of the 15th century and named after Nawab Ghazi Khan Mirani, son of Nawab Haji Khan Mirani, a Balochi chieftain, who had declared independence from the Langah Dynasty's Sultans of Multan. Together with two other Deras i.e. settlements, Dera Ismail Khan and Dera Fateh Khan, it gave its name to Derajat. Derajat eventually came into the possession of the British after the Sikh War in 1849 and was divided into two districts: Dera Ghazi Khan and Dera Ismail Khan. After the independence, many of the city's Hindu residents settled in Derawal Nagar colony of Delhi, India. The district of Rajanpur was later carved out of the Dera Ghazi Khan district. Some of them also settled in various part of India, including Bhiwani, Delhi, Jhansi, Ranchi, Ambala and Haridwar.

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