Attock District

Attock
ضلع اٹک
Clockwise from top-left: Attock Fort, Inderkot Mosque, Begum ki Sarai, Wah Mughal Gardens, Gurdwara Panja Sahib
Attock District highlighted within Punjab Province
Attock District highlighted within Punjab Province
Coordinates: 33°45′57.6″N 72°21′39.2″E / 33.766000°N 72.360889°E / 33.766000; 72.360889
Country Pakistan
Province Punjab
DivisionRawalpindi
EstablishedApril 1904; 120 years ago (April 1904)
HeadquartersAttock
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • MayorMalik Tahir Awan, PTI
 • Deputy CommissionerRao Atif Raza
Area
 • District of Punjab6,857 km2 (2,648 sq mi)
Elevation
355 m (1,165 ft)
Population
 (2023)[1]
 • District of Punjab2,133,005
 • Density310/km2 (810/sq mi)
 • Urban
623,984
 • Rural
1,546,439
Literacy
 • Literacy rate
  • Total:
    (70.22%)
  • Male:
    (79.69%)
  • Female:
    (60.66%)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PKT)
Area code057
ISO 3166 codePK-PB
LanguagesPunjabi, Hindko, Pashto, Urdu
No. of Tehsils6
TehsilsAttock Tehsil
Fateh Jang Tehsil
Hazro Tehsil
Hassan Abdal
Jand Tehsil
Pindi Gheb Tehsil
Websiteattock.punjab.gov.pk

Attock District (Urdu and Punjabi: ضلع اٹک) is a district in Pothohar Plateau of the Punjab Province of Pakistan, created in April 1903. According to 2023 Pakistani census population of Attock District is 2,133,005 (2.1 million).

  1. ^ "Population by Sex, Religion and Rural/Urban, Census - 2023" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  2. ^ "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).