Bahawalnagar District

Bahawalnagar
ضلع بہاولنگر
Top: Marot Fort
Bottom: Fields in Chak 38-R
Map of Bahawalnagar District (highlighted in red) within Punjab.
Map of Bahawalnagar District (highlighted in red) within Punjab.
Country Pakistan
Province Punjab
DivisionBahawalpur
HeadquartersBahawalnagar
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • Deputy CommissionerMuhammad Waseem
 • District Police OfficerMuhammad Essa Khan Sukhera
Area
 • District of Punjab8,878 km2 (3,428 sq mi)
Population
 • District of Punjab3,550,342
 • Density400/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
 • Urban
974,118
 • Rural
2,576,224
Literacy
 • Literacy rate
  • Total:
    (57.01%)
  • Male:
    (63.55%)
  • Female:
    (49.95%)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PKT)
Area code063
No. of Tehsils5
TehsilsBahawalnagar
Chishtian
Fort Abbas
Haroonabad
Minchinabad
Websitebahawalnagar.punjab.gov.pk

Bahawalnagar District (Urdu and Punjabi: ضلع بہاولنگر), is a district of Punjab province in Pakistan. Before the independence of Pakistan, Bahawalnagar was part of Bahawalpur state governed by the Nawab of Bahawalpur. The city of Bahawalnagar is the capital of the district.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2023census was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Bahawalnagar District - population per 2017 Census of Pakistan (scroll down to page 8 of 16 for Bahawalnagar District)" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Government of Pakistan website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2023.