Karachi District (South)

Karachi District
ضلع کراچی
District South
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; 52 years ago (1972)
Re-established11 July 2011
Headquarters[1]DC South
Boroughs
  • Aram Bagh Subdivision
  • Civil Line Subdivision
  • Garden Subdivision
  • Lyari Subdivision
  • Saddar Subdivision
Government
 • Deputy CommissionerAltaf Hussain Sario[3]
 • ConstituensyNA-239 Karachi South-I
NA-240 Karachi South-II
NA-241 Karachi South-III
Area
 • Total122 km2 (47 sq mi)
Elevation
14 m (46 ft)
Population
 (2023 Pakistani census)[4]
 • Total2,329,764
DemonymKarachiite
Time zoneUTC+05:00 (PKT)
 • Summer (DST)DST is not observed
ZIP Code
74400
NWD (area) code021
ISO 3166 codePK-SD
CNIC Code of District Karachi South42301-XXXXXXX-X
Websitedcsouthkarachi.gos.pk

Karachi District (formerly Karachi South District)(Urdu: ضلع کراچی) is an administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan, created in 1972. Karachi District had a population of 2,329,764 (2.3 million) as of 2023 Pakistani census.

In 2023, the Government of Sindh renamed Karachi South District simply to Karachi District because all divisional administration is located there.[5]

  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. ^ "TABLE 1 : HOUSEHOLDS, POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2023.
  5. ^ "Four Karachi districts to be renamed". 29 March 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.