Peshawar Division

Peshawar Division
پشاور ڈویژن
پېښور څانګه
Peshawar Division (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Peshawar Division (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
CapitalPeshawar
Government
 • TypeDivisional Administration
 • MayorZubair Khan (JUI-F)
 • CommissionerRiaz Khan Mehsud (BPS-20 PCS)
 • Capital City Police OfficerSyed Ashfaq Anwar (BPS-20 PSP)
Population
 (2023)
 • Division10,035,171
 • Urban
2,635,067 (26.26%)
 • Rural
7,400,104
Language Speakers
 • Speakers
Literacy
 • Literacy rate
  • Total:
    (51.32%)
  • Male:
    (64.20 %)
  • Female:
    (37.71%)
Websitecpd.kp.gov.pk

Peshawar Division is an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It was abolished in the reforms of 2000, like all divisions, but reinstated in 2008. At independence in 1947, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) was split into two divisions, Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar. Until 1976, Peshawar Division contained the districts of Hazara and Kohat, when they both became divisions themselves. Later in the mid-1990s, the district of Mardan (and its tehsils) also became a division itself. CNIC code of Peshawar Division is 17.

  1. ^ "TABLE 11 : POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).