Admeenistrative units o Pakistan
The admeenistrative units o Pakistan consist o fower provinces, ane federal caipital territory, twa autonomous territories an a group o federally admeenistered tribal auries.[1] Belaw this top tier, there are fower mair tiers o govrenment includin 27 diveesions, mair nor a hunder destricts (zillas), mair nor fower hunder sub-destricts cried tehsils, an several thoosan union cooncils.
Structur o admeenistrative units eedit
Pakistan's admeenistrative units are as follaes: Template:Pakistan Administrative Units Image Map
| No. | Admeenistrative unit | Local name | Caipital | Population[2] | Aurie (km²)[2] | Population density (inh. per km²) |
Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balochistan (province) | بلوچستان | Quetta | 4.8% | 39.3% | 18.9 | 
|
| 2 | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (province) | خیبرپختونخوا | Peshawar | 12.9% | 8.5% | 238.1 | 
|
| 3 | Punjab (province) | پنجاب | Lahore | 53.7% | 23.3% | 358.5 | 
|
| 4 | Sindh (province) | سنڌ سندھ | Karachi | 22.2% | 16.0% | 216 | 
|
| 5 | Islamabad Caipital Territory | وفاقی دارالحکومت | Islamabad | 0.6% | 0.1% | 888.8 | 
|
| 6 | Federally Admeenistered Tribal Auries | وفاقی قبائلی علاقہ جات | Peshawar | 2.3% | 3.1% | 116.7 | 
|
| 7 | Azad Kashmir | آزاد کشمیر | Muzaffarabad | 2.2%[3] | 1.5%[3] | 223.6 | 
|
| 8 | Gilgit-Baltistan | گلگت - بلتستان གིལྒིཏ་བལྟིསྟན | Gilgit | 1.3% | 8.2% | 24.8 | .svg)
|
| Pakistan | پاکستان | Islamabad | 182,000,000 | 881,889 | ?? |
The provinces are dividit intae 105 destricts cried (zillahs) (Urdu: ضلع). Zillahs are further subdividit intae sub-destricts cried tehsils (Urdu: تحصیل) (roughly equivalent tae coonties). Tehsils are uised in aw provinces except in Sindh province whare the term taluka (Urdu: تعلقہ) predominates. Tehsils mey contain veellages or municipalities. Pakistan haes ower five thoosan local govrenments. Syne 2001, these hae been led bi democratically electit local cooncils, each heidit bi a Nazim (Urdu: ناظم) (the wird means "supervisor" in Urdu, but is sometimes translatit as Mayor). Weemen hae been allottit a minimum o 33% seats in these cooncils; thare is nae upper limit tae the number o weemen in these cooncils. Some destricts, incorporatin lairge metropolitan auries, are cried Ceety Destrict. A Ceety Destrict mey contain subdiveesions cried Touns an Union Cooncils.
See an aw eedit
References eedit
- ↑ "Constitution of Pakistan" (PDF). Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Pakistan. Archived (PDF) frae the original on 11 August 2006. Retrieved 30 Mairch 2010.
|section=ignored (help) - ↑ a b "Area, Population, Density and Urban/Rural Proportion by Administrative Units". Population Census Organization, Government of Pakistan. 1998. Archived frae the original on 5 Januar 2005. Retrieved 31 Mairch 2010. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help) - ↑ a b "Population features". Government of Azad Kashmir. 1998. Archived frae the original on 9 Apryle 2010. Retrieved 31 Mairch 2010. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help)Archived 2010-04-09 at the Wayback Machine
Freemit airtins eedit
- Govrenment o Balochistan Archived 2017-10-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Govrenment o Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Govrenment o the Punjab
- Govrenment o the Sindh Archived 2013-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
- Govrenment o the Islamabad Caipital Territory Archived 2008-11-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Govrenment o the Federally Admeenistered Tribal Auries Archived 2009-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
- Govrenment o Azad Jammu an Kashmir
- Govrenment o Gilgit-Baltistan