Karachi District (South)

Karachi District
ضلعو ڪراچي، ضلع کراچی
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District
Clockwise from top-left: Old Karachi Municipal Corporation, I. I. Chundrigar Road, Frere Hall, View of Mazar-e-Quaid, National Museum of Pakistan
Map of Karachi District
Map of Karachi District
Country Pakistan
Province Sindh
DivisionKarachi
Established1972
Re-established11 July 2011
Headquarters[1]DC South Complex M.A.Jinnah Road, Saddar
Boroughs
Government
 • Deputy CommissionerAltaf Hussain Sario[3]
Area
 • District122 km2 (47 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[4]
 • District2,329,764
 • Density19,000/km2 (49,000/sq mi)
 • Urban
2,329,764 (100%)
 • Rural
0
Websitedcsouthkarachi.gos.pk

Karachi District (formerly Karachi South District)(Urdu: ضلع کراچی) is an administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan.[5][6]

In 2023, the Government of Sindh renamed Karachi South District simply to Karachi District because all divisional administration is located there.[7]

  1. ^ "ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICTS". Commissioner, Karachi Division.
  2. ^ "Karachi to have 26 towns, 233 union bodies under Sindh LG Act". Business Recorder (newspaper). 9 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Usman Club clinch DC South Basketball Championship trophy". The Nation (newspaper). 8 December 2023. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2023census was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 15, page 1 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  6. ^ "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 15, page 8 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Four Karachi districts to be renamed". 29 March 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.