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Attock District
Attock District (‫ )ِضلع اٹک‬is a district in Pothohar Plateau of the
Punjab Province of Pakistan. Its capital is Attock city. Attock

‫ِضلع اٹک‬
The district was created in April 1904[3] by the merging of tehsils of District
nearby districts. Its former name was Campbellpur. Today the district
consists of 6 tehsils: Attock, Fateh Jang, Hazro, Hassan Abdal, Jand
and Pindi Gheb.

It is located in the north of the Punjab province, bordered by Chakwal

to the south, Mianwali to the southwest, Rawalpindi to the east, Kohat
to the west, Nowshera to the northwest, and Swabi and Haripur to the
north.

Contents
History
Demography
Tehsils
Union Councils Attock District highlighted within
Punjab Province
Education
Coordinates: 33°45′57.6″N
See also 72°21′39.2″E
References Country  Pakistan
Province  Punjab
Headquarter Attock
History Government
 • Deputy N/A
The original name of Attock District was Attock. It was changed to Commissioner
Campbellpur after the Commander-in-Chief of British forces Sir Colin  • Chairperson Ms Eman Tahir[1]
Campbell, who rebuilt the city of Campbellpur. The name Attock was District
restored in 1978.[4] Council
Area
Demography  • Total 6,857 km2
(2,648 sq mi)
According to the 1998 census of Pakistan the district had a population Elevation 355 m (1,165 ft)
of 1,274,935 of which 20.45% were urban.[5] The estimated Population (2017)[2]
population in 2008 was 1.58 million.  • Total 1,883,556
 • Density 270/km2 (710/sq mi)
In the 1998 census, 87% of the population identified their language as
Punjabi. Pashto was the language of 8.3% and Urdu – of 1.1%.[6] The Time zone UTC+5 (PKT)
Punjabi dialect of the eastern Fateh Jang Tehsil is called Sohāī̃ and Languages English, Punjabi,
Hindko, Urdu and
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belongs to the Dhanni dialect group. The dialects of Pindi Gheb Tehsil Pashto
(called Ghebi) and of Attock (sometimes called Chacchi) have been No. of Tehsils 6
classified as part of Hindko.[7] Tehsils Attock

Fateh Jang

Hazro
Tehsils Hassan Abdal

Jand

The district of Attock is divided into six tehsils[8] Pindi Gheb

1. Attock
2. Fateh Jang
3. HasanAbdal
4. Hazro
5. Jand
6. Pindi Gheb

Union Councils
District contain a total of 72 Union Councils.[9]

Education
Attock has a total of 1,287 government schools out of which 51 percent (657 schools) are for female students. The
district has an enrolment of 224,487 in public sector schools, having literacy rate of 26.3%. Attock is considered as
most under developed district of Punjab.[10]

See also
Kamra
Pothohar Plateau

References
1. "Heads of local governments take oath across Punjab" (http://www.radio.gov.pk/31-Dec-2016/local-g
overnments-heads-take-oath-across-punjab). Radio Pakistan. Radio Pakistan. 31 December 2016.
Retrieved 19 May 2017.
2. "DISTRICT WISE CENSUS RESULTS CENSUS 2017" (https://web.archive.org/web/201708291647
48/http://www.pbscensus.gov.pk/sites/default/files/DISTRICT_WISE_CENSUS_RESULTS_CENSUS
_2017.pdf) (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Archived from the original (http://www.pbscensus.gov.pk/
sites/default/files/DISTRICT_WISE_CENSUS_RESULTS_CENSUS_2017.pdf) (PDF) on 29 August
2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
3. Gazetteer of the Attock District 1930, Punjab Government, Lahore 1932. Reprinted version: Sang-e-
Meel Publications, Lahore, 1989
4. "Official Website" (https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011558/http://www.attockpolice.gov.pk/go.a
sp?PageID=4). Attock Police. Archived from the original (http://www.attockpolice.gov.pk/go.asp?Pag
eID=4) on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 3 July 2007.
5. "Pakistan: Population 1901–98" (https://web.archive.org/web/20030413204632/http://www.urckarach
i.org/Population%20Table-5.htm). Urban Resource Centre. Archived from the original (http://www.urc
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karachi.org/Population%20Table-5.htm) on 13 April 2003. Retrieved 3 July 2007.

6. 1998 District Census report of Attock. Census publication. 12. Islamabad: Population Census
Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 1999.
7. Shackle, Christopher (1980). "Hindko in Kohat and Peshawar". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
African Studies. 43 (3): 484–86. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00137401 (https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS004
1977X00137401). ISSN 0041-977X (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0041-977X).
8. "Tehsils of district Attock" (https://www.punjab.gov.pk/attock). Retrieved 23 August 2016.
9. "Union Councils of district Attock" (http://www.pakinformation.com/attock/profile.html). Retrieved
23 August 2016.
10. "Punjab Annual Schools Census Data 2014-15" (https://web.archive.org/web/20160825184725/htt
p://schoolportal.punjab.gov.pk/schoolInfoNew.asp?distId=371--Attock). Archived from the original (htt
p://schoolportal.punjab.gov.pk/schoolInfoNew.asp?distId=371--Attock) on 25 August 2016. Retrieved
23 August 2016.

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