Mansehra District

Demographics

|1951 |260,631 |1961 |373,975 |1972 |552,842 |1981 |686,308 |1998 |978,157 |2017 |1,555,742 |2023 |1,797,177

As of the 2023 census, Mansehra district has 294,052 households and a population of 1,797,177. The district has a sex ratio of 103.08 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 63.79%: 75.33% for males and 52.02% for females. 478,985 (26.76% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 154,834 (8.62%) live in urban areas.

Major ethnic groups

The major ethnic groups in Mansehra district are:

• Gujjar
• Kohistani
• Awan
• Syed
• Tanoli
• Swati

Other ethnic groups

• Dhund
• Mughal
• Qureshi
• Akhun Khel
• Turk
• Pashtun tribes (Mandokhel, Yousafzai, Utmanzai, Nusratkhel, Hassanzai)

Languages

At the time of the 2023 census, 66.22% of the population spoke Hindko, 17.97% Pashto, 2.51% Kohistani and 1.16% Urdu as their first language.

Many of these, especially in the upper Kaghan Valley, are speakers of the Kohistani dialects. There are also speakers of the widely dispersed Gujari language, particularly in the Kaghan Valley. The local variety is intermediate between the eastern dialects of Gujari (spoken in Azad Kashmir) and the western group (from Chitral, Swat and Gilgit). There is also a small community in the village of Dana in Oghi Tehsil who speak the endangered Mankiyali language.

Religions

Constituencies

The district is represented in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly by elected MPAs who represent the following constituencies:

Constituency and current member :

• PK-36 (Mansehra-I), Munir Lughmani Swati
• PK-37 (Manshera-II), Babar Saleem Swati
• PK 38 (Mansehra III), Zahid Chanzeb Swati
• PK 39 (Mansehra IV), Ikram Ghazi Tanoli
• PK 40 (Mansehra V), Sardar Shah Jahan

The district is represented in the National Assembly of Pakistan by two elected MNAs who represent the following constituencies:

• NA-14 (Mansehra-I)
• NA-15 (Mansehra Torghar), Shahzada Gustasip Khan Swati

Administrative divisions

Mansehra District consists of six tehsils, with Tanawal Tehsil separated from the other five in December 2022.

The Kala Dhaka tehsil was separated as Torghar District in 2011.

Politics

Notable people

Main article: List of people from Mansehra

References

Bibliography

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