Shikarpur District
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Shikarpur District ضلعو شڪارپور |
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| District | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Sindh |
| Headquarters | Shikarpur |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,640 km2 (1,020 sq mi) |
| Population (2011 est.) | |
| • Total | 1,347,414 |
| • Density | 510/km2 (1,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+5) |
| Website | Shikarpur Sindh www.shikarpur.tk |
Shikarpur district (Sindhi:شڪارپور) : (Urdu: ضِلع شِكارپُور), is a district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The city of Shikarpur is the capital, there are four (04) Sub-Divisions Lakhi Ghulam Shah, Garhi Yasin, Khanpur and Shikarpur itself. It is spread over an area of 2,640 km2, according to the census of 1998 Shikarpur had population of 1,170,864 of which 23.51% were urban. The East India Company occupied Sindh in 1843; They formed three districts in Sindh administratively; 1.Hyderabad 2. Karachi 3.Shikarpur. Then the Shikarpur city was the District Headquarters till 1901 until the British Government Shifted District Headquarters to Sukkur. At that time Shikarpur had 14 talukas which covered the area of all North Sindh except Khairpur. Those days Shikarpur District had its boundaries from Kashmore to Dadu district now days.
The district of Shikarpur is sub-divided into four talukas these are:
As per the 1998 census of the country, Shikarpur had a population of 880,000 out of which (24%) was urban. The most common religion is Islam (98.03%) with small a population of Hindus (1.73%), which is larger in the urban areas – 4.36%. The predominant first language is Sindhi accounting for 96% of the population, followed by Urdu (1.8%) and Balochi (1%).
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