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Lahore Division is an administrative division of Punjab Province, . It comprises four Districts - , , Nankana Sahib and Sheikhupura. The Lahore Division is commanded by a Commissioner to manage the division. Under the Commissioner there are four Additional Commissioners. For each district there is a Deputy Commissioner. Under the reforms of 2000, this tier of government was abolished, but in 2008 divisions were restored. Divisions/Districts of Pakistan


History
Lahore Division was originally an administrative division of the Punjab Province of . It extended along the right bank of the from the to , and comprised the six districts of , Gujranwala, , Amritsar, Gurdaspur and . The total area of the division was and the population according to the 1901 census of India was 5,598,463. The commissioner for the division also exercised political control over the hill state of .

The Commissioner's headquarters were at and Dalhousie.The total population of the Division increased from 4,696,636 in 1881 to 5,321,535 in 1891, and 5,598,463 in 1901. The total area was , and the density of population was 326 persons per square mile, compared with 208 for British territory in the Province as a whole. In 1901 Muslims numbered 3,332,175, or 60 percent of the total; while other religions included Hindus, 1,567,402; Sikhs, 661,320; Jains, 5,5,07; Buddhists, 6; Parsis, 228; and Christians, 31,815, of whom 25,248 were natives.

The division contained six districts:

4,771497,7066,90
3,7041,162,10912,55
Amritsar1,6011,023,82814,54
Gurdaspur1,889940,33417,72
1,9911,083,90917,27
Gujranwala3,198890,55712,89
Total17,1545,598,46381,87

Gurdaspur included a few square miles of mountainous country, enclosing the hill station of Dalhousie (highest, point, 7,687 feet) ; but otherwise the Division was flat. It contained 9,869 villages and 41 towns, of which the largest are Lahore (population, 202,964, including cantonment), Amristar(162,429), Sialkot (57,956), Gujranwala (29,224), (27,365), and Gujrat (22,022). In commercial importance Lahore and Amritsar dwarfed all other towns in the Division, but Sialkot and Batala were considerably more than local centres. Besides the administrative charge of six British Districts, the Commissioner of Lahore had political control over the Native State of Chamba, which had an area of and a population (1901) of 127,834.


Demographics

Population
According to the 2023 census, Lahore division had a population of 22,772,710 roughly equal to the nation of or the US state of .


List of the Districts
11,77213,004,1357,336.679.62%
23,9954,084,2861,021.462.85%
3Nankana Sahib2,2161,634,871737.063.12%
4Sheikhupura3,7444,049,4181,080.368.88%


List of the Tehsils
11,212979,746808.3760.64%
21,4931,603,6581,074.1263.63%
3Kot Radha Kishan398424,8751,067.5364.66%
48921,076,0071,206.2962.98%
5Lahore Cantonment4661,885,0984,045.2781.01%
6Lahore City2144,123,35419,268.0180.36%
7Model Town3533,244,9069,192.3778.94%
84671,080,6372,314.0072.35%
92722,670,1409,816.6981.21%
10Sangla Hill223269,9931,210.7372.08%Nankana Sahib District
11Nankana Sahib1,6621,065,063640.8359.02%
12Shah Kot331299,815905.7969.28%
131,028721,192701.5569.10%Sheikhupura District
14Ferozewala511997,2461,951.5666.55%
15Safdarabad461320,851695.9967.55 %
16Sheikhupura1,3691,780,8371,300.8370.72%
17Sharak Pur375229,292611.4565.05%


Independence
With the independence of and in 1947, Lahore Division was divided among the two countries. with the eastern half becoming Amritsar District.


Constituencies
PP-132 Nankana Sahib-INA-111 Nankana Sahib-INankana Sahib
PP-133 Nankana Sahib-II
PP-134 Nankana Sahib-IIINA-112 Nankana Sahib-II
PP-135 Nankana Sahib-IV
PP-136 Sheikhupura-INA-113 Sheikhupura-ISheikhupura
PP-137 Sheikhupura-II
PP-138 Sheikhupura-IIINA-114 Sheikhupura-II
PP-139 Sheikhupura-IV
PP-140 Sheikhupura-V
PP-141 Sheikhupura-VINA-115 Sheikhupura-III
PP-142 Sheikhupura-VII
PP-143 Sheikhupura-VIIINA-116 Sheikhupura-IV
PP-144 Sheikhupura-IX
PP-145 Lahore-INA-117 Lahore-I
PP-146 Lahore-II
PP-147 Lahore-IIINA-118 Lahore-II
PP-148 Lahore-IV
PP-149 Lahore-VNA-119 Lahore-III
PP-150 Lahore-VI
PP-151 Lahore-VIINA-120 Lahore-IV
PP-154 Lahore-X
PP-152 Lahore-VIIINA-121 Lahore-V
PP-153 Lahore-IX
PP-155 Lahore-XINA-122 Lahore-VI
PP-156 Lahore-XII
PP-157 Lahore-XIII
PP-158 Lahore-XIVNA-123 Lahore-VII
PP-164 Lahore-XX
PP-159 Lahore-XVNA-124 Lahore-VIII
PP-163 Lahore-XIX
PP-165 Lahore-XXINA-125 Lahore-IX
PP-166 Lahore-XXII
PP-167 Lahore-XXIIINA-126 Lahore-X
PP-168 Lahore-XXIV
PP-160 Lahore-XVINA-127 Lahore-XI
PP-162 Lahore-XVIII
PP-161 Lahore-XVIINA-128 Lahore-XII
PP-169 Lahore-XXV
PP-170 Lahore-XXVI
PP-171 Lahore-XXVIINA-129 Lahore-XIII
PP-172 Lahore-XXVIII
PP-173 Lahore-XXIXNA-130 Lahore-XIV
PP-174 Lahore-XXX
PP-176 Kasur-IINA-131 Kasur-I
PP-177 Kasur-III
PP-178 Kasur-IV
PP-175 Kasur-INA-132 Kasur-II
PP-179 Kasur-V
PP-180 Kasur-VINA-133 Kasur-III
PP-181 Kasur-VII
PP-182 Kasur-VIIINA-134 Kasur-IV
PP-183 Kasur-IX
PP-184 Kasur-X


See also
  • Divisions of Pakistan
    • Divisions of Punjab, Pakistan
    • Divisions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
    • Divisions of Balochistan
    • Divisions of Sindh
  • Districts of Pakistan
    • Districts of Punjab, Pakistan
    • Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
    • Districts of Balochistan
    • Districts of Sindh

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