Bajaur District

Bajaur District (Urdu: باجوڑ) is a district of the Malakand Division in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It used to be part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) until this was merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It was the smallest of the agencies (districts) in FATA, it has a hilly terrain. According to the 1998 census, 595,227 people lived there. It borders Afghanistan's Kunar Province.

Subdivisions

Bajaur District is currently subdivided into seven tehsils (sub-districts), details from the 2023 census which show area and the literacy rate are in the table below:

Tehsil	Area (km²)	Population	Literacy	Location
Bar Chamarkand	13	3,574	23.81%	Western tip
Barang	159	90,082	23.39%	Southeast
Khar Bajaur	238	301,778	33.28%	Central and south-central
Mamund	250	358,190	24.48%	Northwest
Nawagai	216	93,850	27.39%	West
Salarzai	220	316,767	19.90%	North-central
Utman Khel	194	123,719	31.50%	East

References

↑ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, KPK" (PDF).
↑ "LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023, KPK" (PDF).
↑ "DISTRICT AND TEHSIL LEVEL POPULATION SUMMARY WITH REGION BREAKUP" (PDF). pbscensus.gov. 2018-03-26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2020-10-15.

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[1] "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, KPK" (PDF).

[2] "LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023, KPK" (PDF).

[3] "DISTRICT AND TEHSIL LEVEL POPULATION SUMMARY WITH REGION BREAKUP" (PDF). pbscensus.gov. 2018-03-26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2020-10-15.