Narowal District (Punjabi and Urdu: ضِلع نارووال), located in upper punjab, is a district in the province of Punjab of Pakistan. Narowal city is the capital of the district. During the British rule, Narowal was the town of Raya Khas tehsil of Sialkot District. Narowal District formed in 1991, when the two tehsils of Narowal and Shakargarh were split off from Sialkot District.[3]
Administration
The district is administratively divided into the following three tehsils (subdivisions), which contain a total of 74 Union Councils:[4]
The total area of the district is approximately 2,337 square kilometres. Prior to the creation of Zafarwal Tehsil in July 2009,[8]Narowal Tehsil occupied 1,065 square kilometres while the remaining area (1,272 square kilometres) fell in Shakargarh Tehsil. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, Narowal District's population was 1,256,097, of which only 12.11% were urbans.[9] According to the 2017 census, total population of District Narowal is 1.709 million. Male population is 0.853 m (49.96%) and Female population is 0.855 m (50.04%).[1]
At the time of the 2017 census, Narowal had a sex ratio of 1033 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 73.51% - 79.40% for males and 67.97% for females. 256,657 (15.03%) lived in urban areas. 461,876 (27.05%) were under 10 years of age.[11] In 2023, the district had 281,628 households and a population of 1,950,954.[1] Population is growing at the rate of 2.25% annually. Total urban population stands at 17.89% whereas rural population stands at 82.11%.
University of Gujrat(UOG), Narowal campus.University of Narowal used to be called as University of Gujrat(UOG)but later on UON got independent and now there is not a single Campus of University of Gujrat in Narowal.
^Divisions/Districts of PakistanArchived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
Note: Although divisions as an administrative structure has been abolished, the election commission of Pakistan still groups districts under the division names
^"His family". Dawn. Pakistan. 11 February 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
^1941 figures are for Narowal tehsil of Sialkot district and Shakargarh tehsil of Gurdaspur district, which roughly matches present-day district borders. District was incorporated to take into account population increases during the post-independence era, which has resulted in various bifurcations of districts and tehsils across the historic Punjab Province region.
