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Mardan Division is one of the seven divisions in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It consists of two districts: Mardan District and Swabi District. The division borders Hazara Division, Malakand Division, and Peshawar Division. CNIC code of Mardan Division is 16.
| 1 | Swabi District | Swabi | 1,543 | 1,894,600 | 1,228.0 | 58.48% |
| 2 | Mardan District | Mardan | 1,632 | 2,744,898 | 1,681.4 | 55.79% |
| 1 | Garhi Kapura Tehsil | 143 | 319,465 | 2,234.02 | 51.70% | Mardan District |
| 2 | Katlang Tehsil | 422 | 377,535 | 894.63 | 61.47% | |
| 3 | Mardan Tehsil | 335 | 1,040,893 | 3,107.14 | 56.41% | |
| 4 | Rustam Tehsil | 379 | 279,527 | 737.54 | 49.98% | |
| 5 | Takht Bhai Tehsil | 353 | 727,478 | 2,060.84 | 56.02% | |
| 6 | Lahor Tehsil | 318 | 354,383 | 1,114.41 | 54.16% | Swabi District |
| 7 | Razar Tehsil | 418 | 682,303 | 1,632.30 | 56.61% | |
| 8 | Swabi Tehsil | 389 | 475,352 | 1,221.98 | 63.23% | |
| 9 | Topi Tehsil | 418 | 382,562 | 915.22 | 59.83% |
This setup continued until One Unit, a geopolitical policy that abolished the provinces making up West Pakistan and consolidated West Pakistan into one province. Following the conclusion of the One Unit policy ended in 1970 and the subsequent reinstatement of the original provincial structure, the divisions that emerged during the policy period remained in the North-West Frontier Province. Thus, the Mardan District was situated within the Peshawar Division.
The area received full-fledged division status between the Pakistani censuses of 1981 and 1998, and during the same time period, Swabi Tehsil was also upgraded, to district status (becoming Swabi District).
In August 2000, the division was abolished along with every other division in the country, but was reinstated (with all the other divisions of Pakistan) eight years later after the elections of 2008.
The division borders the important Indus River to its south and east, and has an abundance of natural beauty.
The largest city in Mardan Division is its namesake, Mardan. Mardan had a population of 358,604 in 2017 and was the second-largest city in the entire province (after Peshawar) at the time. Swabi was the second-largest city in the division, and it had a population of 123,412 and was the eighth-largest city in the province. The next three most-populous cities in the division were Takht-i-Bahi, in the Mardan District, with a population of 80,721, Topi, in the Swabi District, with a population of 52,983, and Tordher, also in the Swabi District, with a population of 41,420. The whole division had seven municipalities in 2017, with five of them being concentrated in the Swabi District.
The division has one cantonment, the Mardan Cantonment, adjacent to the city of Mardan which had a population of 6,871, making up the division's entire military population. This made only 0.17% of the entire population of the division active military personnel (one of the smallest military-civilian ratios in all of Pakistan).
In 2014 - 2015, Mardan Division had a literacy rate of roughly 51%, below the national average of 60%, and just below the provincial average of 53%.
| + Religious groups in Mardan Division (British North-West Frontier Province era) ! rowspan="2" | Religious group ! colspan="2" | 1911 ! colspan="2" | 1921 ! colspan="2" | 1931 ! colspan="2" | 1941 | |||||||||
| PK-49 Swabi-I | NA-19 Swabi-I | Swabi District |
| PK-50 Swabi-II | ||
| PK-51 Swabi-III | ||
| PK-52 Swabi-IV | NA-20 Swabi-II | |
| PK-53 Swabi-V | ||
| PK-54 Mardan-I | NA-21 Mardan-I | Mardan District |
| PK-55 Mardan-II | ||
| PK-56 Mardan-III | NA-22 Mardan-II | |
| PK-57 Mardan-IV | ||
| PK-58 Mardan-V | ||
| PK-59 Mardan-VI | NA-23 Mardan-III | |
| PK-60 Mardan-VII | ||
| PK-61 Mardan-VIII |
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