Nowshera District
| Nowshera District | |
|---|---|
| District | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | Nowshera District |
| Headquarters | Nowshera |
| Union Councils | 47 |
| Government | |
| • District Nazim | Liaquat Khattak |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,748 km2 (675 sq mi) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 1,394,000 |
| • Density | 500/km2 (1,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+5) |
Nowshera (Pashto: نوشار/نوشہرہ) is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan, its capital is Nowshera.
Previously it was known as Nowkhaar Province till it was annexed into British India via the Durand Line Agreement.
Prior to its establishment as a separate district in 1990, Nowshera was part of Peshawar District. The district was also part of the Peshawar Division until the reforms of The Government of Pakistan.
1,748 km² total area. The population density is 608 persons per square kilometre. The total agricultural area is 52,540 hectares. The main source of income of the region is agriculture.
Nowshera was a tehsil (sub division) of Peshawar until 1988, when it became a district. It is bordered by Peshawar District to the West, Mardan District to the North, Charsadda District to the North West, Swabi District to the North East, Kohat District to the South, Orakzai Agency to the South West & to the East.
The population counted in the 1998 census was 874,000,. The predominant first language was Pashto, spoken natively by 91% of the population. The previous census of 1981 reported that in the tehsil of Nowshera, Pashto was the language of 88% of households, while Punjabi accounted for 4.3%, Hindko – 4.2%, and Urdu – 2.9%.
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