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Hyderabad District (Sindhi: ضلعو حيدرآباد Urdu: ضلع حیدرآباد), pronunciation ⓘ is a district of Sindh, Pakistan. Its capital is the city of Hyderabad . The district is the second most urbanized in Sindh, after Karachi , with 80% of its population residing in urban areas.
Hyderabad was a majority Sindhi Hindu city prior to 1948, [14] when many migrated to India and elsewhere [35] after the independence of Pakistan 1947. Hindus who departed had played a major role in the city's economy, and formed the majority of the Hyderabad's population. [14]
The area under the municipality increased from 170 square kilometres (66 sq mi) to 625 square kilometres (241 sq mi) in 2007 when the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation was created. [4] As a consequence, the total population leaped from 3,637,483 in 2001 census to 6,809,970 in 2011 census, an increase of over 87%.
It was created in 6 June 2014, formerly a part of Hyderabad Division. Nawabshah is the divisional headquarters of Shaheed Benazirabad Division. [1] [2] According to 2023 Pakistani census division had a population of 5,928,917 (5.9 million).
The census also reported that Azad Kashmir's population stood at 4,045,367 [4] and Gilgit-Baltistan's population was 1,492,924. [5] This meant that the total population of Pakistan in 2017 was 213,222,917. The statistics in the graphs below were created by the United Nations in July 2022, [2] and are covered in more detail in the following section.
In Pakistan, Sindhi is the first language of 30.26 million people, or 14.6% of the country's population as of the 2017 census. 29.5 million of these are found in Sindh, where they account for 62% of the total population of the province.
Hyderabad Division (Sindhi: حيدرآباد ڊويزن) is an administrative division of the Sindh Province of Pakistan. It was abolished in 2000 but restored again on 11 July 2011. It was abolished in 2000 but restored again on 11 July 2011.
As of the 2023 census, Thatta district has 206,202 households and a population of 1,083,191. [8] The district has a sex ratio of 105.18 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 26.88%: 33.23% for males and 20.12% for females.