Dadu District

Dadu District
  • ضلعو دادو
  • ضلع دادو
Top: Tomb of Yar Muhammad Kalhoro
Bottom: Gorakh Hill
Dadu is located in the west of Sindh
Dadu is located in the west of Sindh
Country Pakistan
Province Sindh
DivisionHyderabad Division
Established1931; 93 years ago (1931)
Founded byBritish Raj
HeadquartersDadu
Administrative Subdivisions
04
  • Dadu Taluka
    Johi Taluka
    Khairpur Nathan Shah Taluka
    Mehar Taluka
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • Deputy CommissionerJawad Ali Larak
 • ConstituensyNA-227 Dadu-I
NA-228 Dadu-II
Area
 • District of Sindh7,866 km2 (3,037 sq mi)
Population
 • District of Sindh1,742,307
 • Density221.50/km2 (573.7/sq mi)
 • Urban
439,034 (25.20%)
 • Rural
1,303,286
Time zoneUTC+05:00 (PKT)
 • Summer (DST)DST is not observed
ZIP Code
NWD (area) code025
ISO 3166 codePK-SD

Dadu District (Sindhi: ضلعو دادو), (Urdu: ضلع دادو) is a district of Sindh Province, Pakistan. With headquarters the city of Dadu, the district was created in 1931[2][3] by merging Kotri and Mahal Kohistan (later Jamshoro) tehsils from Karachi District and Mehar, Khairpur Nathan Shah, Dadu, Johi and Sehwan tehsils from Larkana District.[4] In 2004, several talukas in the south were split off to create the new Jamshoro District.[5] Its boundary touches with four districts of Sindh i.e. Jamshoro, Naushahro Feroze, Shaheed Benazirabad and Kamber Shahdadkot.[6]

The main languages spoken in Dadu are Sindhi, Balochi and Urdu. Some of the popular tourist attractions in the district include the Gorakh Hill and Manchar Lake.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2023census was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "About Dadu". hotfm.com.pk. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  3. ^ "District Courts of Sindh". www.districtcourtssindh.gos.pk. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  4. ^ "Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Campus Dadu". Archived from the original on 2014-07-19. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  5. ^ "Four new districts created in Sindh". 2004. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Dadu district uc list mna mpa seats".