Peshawar Division

Peshawar Division

پشاور ڈویژن
پېښور څانګه‎
Peshawar Division پشاور ڈویژن; پېښور څانګه‎
Division
	Peshawar Division (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Capital	Peshawar
Government
• Type	Divisional Administration
• Mayor	Zubair Khan (JUI-F)
• Commissioner	Riaz Khan Mehsud (BPS-20 PCS)
• Capital City Police Officer	Syed Ashfaq Anwar (BPS-20 PSP)
Population (2023)
• Division	10,035,171
• Urban	2,635,067 (26.26%)
• Rural	7,400,104
Language Speakers
• Speakers	Largest:; Pashto (95.75%); Others:; Hindko (2.19%);
Literacy
• Literacy rate	Total:; (51.32%); Male:; (64.20 %); Female:; (37.71%);
Website	cpd.kp.gov.pk

Peshawar Division is an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It was abolished in the reforms of 2000, like all divisions, but reinstated in 2008. At independence in 1947, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) was split into two divisions, Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar. Until 1976, Peshawar Division contained the districts of Hazara and Kohat, when they both became divisions themselves. Later in the mid-1990s, the district of Mardan (and its tehsils) also became a division itself. CNIC code of Peshawar Division is 17.

List of the Districts

#	District	Headquarter	Area (km²)^[3]	Pop. (2023)	Density (ppl/km²) (2023)	Lit. rate (2023)
1	Charsadda	Charsadda	996	1,835,504	1,843.1	53.94%
2	Khyber	Landi Kotal	2,576	1,146,267	445.0	38.45%
3	Nowshera	Nowshera	1,748	1,740,705	995.8	56.78%
4	Peshawar	Peshawar	1,518	4,758,762	3,135.6	53.28%
5	Mohmand	Ghalanai	2,296	553,933	241.2	31.28%

List of the Tehsils

#	Tehsil	Area (km²)^[4]	Pop. (2023)	Density (ppl/km²) (2023)	Districts
1	Charsadda Tehsil	445	909,438	2,043.68	Charsadda District
2	Shabqadar Tehsil	204	440,524	2,159.43
3	Tangi Tehsil	347	485,542	1,399.26
4	Bagh Maidan Tehsil				Khyber District
5	Bara Tehsil	1,430	548,084	383.28
6	Bazar Zakha Khel Tehsil
7	Fort Salop Tehsil
8	Jamrud Tehsil	311	243,290	782.28
9	Landi Kotal Tehsil	679	312,313	459.96
10	Mula Gori Tehsil	156	42,580	272.95
11	Painda Cheena Tehsil
12	Ambar Utman Khel Tehsil	273	79,455	291.04	Mohmand District
13	Halim Zai Tehsil	211	89,149	422.51
14	Pindiali Tehsil	454	112,247	247.24
15	Pran Ghar Tehsil	257	36,046	140.26
16	Safi Tehsil	322	109,620	340.43
17	Upper Mohmand (Baizai) Tehsil]]	513	63,659	124.09
18	Yake Ghund Tehsil	266	63,757	239.69
19	Jehangira Tehsil	718	434,984	100.72	Nowshera District
20	Nowshera Tehsil	679	796,226	106.39
21	Pabbi Tehsil	351	509,495	102.42
22	Badbher Tehsil	357	439,912	1,232.25	Peshawar District
23	Chamkani Tehsil	226	624,354	2,762.63
24	Hassan Khel Tehsil	261	72,557	278
25	Mathra Tehsil	218	495,059	2,270.91
26	Peshawar City Tehsil	176	2,113,596	12,009.07
27	Peshtakhara Tehsil	135	480,436	3,558.79
28	Shah Alam Tehsil	145	532,848	3,674.81

Demographics

According to the 2023 census, Peshawar Division had a population of 10,035,171.^[5]

Religious groups in Peshawar Division (British North-West Frontier Province era)
Religious group	1881^[6]		1891^[7]		1901^[8]		1911^[9]		1921^[10]		1931^[11]		1941^[12]^[13]^: 22
Religious group	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
Islam	546,117	92.14%	654,443	92.99%	732,870	92.92%	807,788	93.38%	836,222	92.16%	898,683	92.24%	769,589	90.35%
Hinduism	39,321	6.63%	35,417	5.03%	40,183	5.09%	35,367	4.09%	48,144	5.31%	42,321	4.34%	51,212	6.01%
Christianity	4,088	0.69%	4,742	0.67%	4,288	0.54%	5,604	0.65%	7,652	0.84%	8,974	0.92%	6,890	0.81%
Sikhism	3,103	0.52%	9,125	1.3%	11,318	1.44%	16,196	1.87%	15,326	1.69%	24,271	2.49%	24,030	2.82%
Zoroastrianism	39	0.01%	37	0.01%	46	0.01%	49	0.01%	20	0%	59	0.01%	24	0%
Jainism	3	0%	0	0%	0	0%	4	0%	3	0%	0	0%	0	0%
Buddhism	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	2	0%	18	0%
Judaism	—	—	4	0%	2	0%	1	0%	0	0%	11	0%	70	0.01%
Others	3	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
Total population	592,674	100%	703,768	100%	788,707	100%	865,009	100%	907,367	100%	974,321	100%	851,833	100%
Note: British North-West Frontier Province era figures are for Peshawar District, which roughly corresponds to present-day Peshawar Division.