Tank District

Tank District
ضلع ٹانک
ټانک ولسوالۍ
View from Tank Railway Station
View from Tank Railway Station
Tak District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Tak District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DivisionDera Ismail Khan
HeadquartersTank
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • Deputy CommissionerN/A
 • District Police OfficerN/A
 • District Health OfficerN/A
Area
 • District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa2,900 km2 (1,100 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[1]
 • District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa470,293
 • Density160/km2 (420/sq mi)
 • Urban
49,172
 • Rural
421,121
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Number of Tehsils1
Number of Union councils16
Websitetank.kp.gov.pk

Tank District (Pashto: ټانک ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع ٹانک ṭāṅk; Saraiki: ٹاک ṭāk) is a district in the Dera Ismail Khan Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

The city of Tank is the headquarter of the district, which consists of Union Council City I and Union Council City II. There are sixteen Union councils in the district Tank. Until 1992, Tank was a tehsil within Dera Ismail Khan district.[2]: 1  Tank is bordered with the district of Lakki Marwat in the northeast, Dera Ismail Khan in the east, FR Tank in the north and the South Waziristan district in the west. The temperature of Tank reaches 110–120 °F in summer. However, in the winter, it is normal. People of the mountainous regions of the west usually come to Tank to avoid cold weather and then return during the summer.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2023 census was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ 1998 District Census report of Tank. Census publication. Vol. 84. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.