Faisalabad District

Faisalabad District
ضلع فیصل آباد
Lyallpur
District
Top: University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
Bottom: Gat Wala Lake
Faisalabad District highlighted within Punjab Province
Faisalabad District highlighted within Punjab Province
Coordinates: 31°25′05.10″N 73°04′39.27″E / 31.4180833°N 73.0775750°E / 31.4180833; 73.0775750
CountryPakistan
ProvincePunjab
DivisionFaisalabad
HeadquartersFaisalabad
Number of Tehsils6
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • Deputy CommissionerCaptin (R) Nadeem Nasir[1]
 • District Police OfficerKamran Adil
 • District Health OfficerN/A
Area
 • District5,857 km2 (2,261 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[2]
 • District9,075,819
 • Density1,500/km2 (4,000/sq mi)
 • Urban
4,392,979
 • Rural
4,682,840
Literacy
[3]
 • Literacy rate
  • Total:
    (73.41%)
  • Male:
    (77.34%)
  • Female:
    (69.11%)
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Area code041
LanguagesPunjabi, Urdu
Websitefaisalabad.punjab.gov.pk

Faisalabad District (Lyallpur District until 1979)[4] (Punjabi and Urdu: ضلع فیصل آباد) is one of the districts of Punjab province, Pakistan. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan it had a population of 3,029,547 of which almost 42% were in Faisalabad City. It is the third largest city of Pakistan after Karachi and Lahore.[5]

After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the Muslim refugees from Eastern Punjab and Haryana settled in the Faisalabad District. It initially lacked industry, hospitals and universities. Since independence, there has been industrial growth, and the city's population is continually growing. Notable industry in the district include but not limited to Textile (spinning, weaving, printing, dying, stitching), Chemicals (acids, caustics, industrial gases, potash, chlorides, etc.), consumer goods (soaps, vegetable oil, detergents), Engineering (light electrical equipment, engineering goods), Metals & Metallurgy (steels, alloys) and Power (power equipment, power production).[6]

Initially a part of Jhang District, it gained the status of a separate district in 1904.[7] In 1982 Toba Tek Singh District (until then a Tehsil of Faisalabad District) was created as a separate district from Faisalabad. As of 2006, it is a City-District consisting of the city of Faisalabad and its surrounding areas.[8]

  1. ^ "DC Directs Polio Teams To Remain Active For Achieving Target". UrduPoint. 21 January 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2023census was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  4. ^ "History of Faisalabad". Punjab Portal website. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  5. ^ Urban Resource Centre (1998 census details) Archived 13 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "A Histroty of Faisalabad City". Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry website. Archived from the original on 22 May 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  7. ^ 1998 District Census report of Faisalabad. Census publication. Vol. 116. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference NRB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).