Korangi District ( ur, ) is one of the seven administrative districts of
Karachi
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Sindh
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Pakistan
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Map of Karachi Division
History
The district was a part of District East in Karachi, which was divided in November 2013.
The district is diverse include Baloch, Pashtun, Sindhi, Punjabi and other ethnicities.
The district suffers from water crisis and contamination issues. A
reverse osmosis
Reverse osmosis (RO) is a water purification process that uses a partially permeable membrane to separate ions, unwanted molecules and larger particles from drinking water. In reverse osmosis, an applied pressure is used to overcome osmotic ...
plant was inaugurated in Union Council 35 of District Municipal Corporation (DMC) Korangi on 6 March 2017.
Demographics
At the time of the 2017 census, Korangi district had a population of 2,577,556, of which 1,347,161 were males and 1,229,899 females. The entire population was urban. The literacy rate is 80.19%: 81.56% for males and 78.68% for females.
The majority religion is Islam, with 95.90% of the population. Christianity is practiced by 3.51% of the population.
At the time of the 2017 census, 61.34% of the population spoke
Punjabi
Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan
* Punjabi language
* Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
Punjabi may also refer to:
* Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...
, 5.80%
Sindhi
Sindhi may refer to:
*something from, or related to Sindh, a province of Pakistan
* Sindhi people, an ethnic group from the Sindh region
* Sindhi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
People with the name
* Sarkash Sindhi (1940–2012 ...
, 5.23%
Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official langua ...
Hindko
Hindko (, romanized: , ) is a cover term for a diverse group of Lahnda dialects spoken by several million people of various ethnic backgrounds in several areas in northwestern Pakistan, primarily in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punj ...
as their first language.
Administrative towns
Korangi District has three administrative towns.
Korangi Town
Landhi Town
Shah Faisal Town
List of Dehs
The following is a list of Korangi District's dehs, organised by taluka:
* Shah Faisal taluka (2 dehs)
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Drigh
Pakistan Air Force Base Faisal ( ur, ), founded as RAF Drigh Road, now called Shahrah-e-Faisal. This air force base is located at Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. In 1975, it was named after the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.
It is the site of PA ...
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Drigh Road
Shahrah-e-Faisal, founded as Drigh Road, is a boulevard in Karachi that runs , from the Bhutto Underpass near Hotel Metropole in central Karachi, to Star Gate near Jinnah International Airport, where it becomes N-5 National Highway.
Korangi (disambiguation) Korangi is a human settlement in Sindh, Pakistan.
Korangi may also refer to:
In Pakistan
* Korangi Creek Cantonment, a cantonment in Pakistan.
*Korangi Creek Industrial Park, an industrial park in Pakistan
* Korangi District, an administrative uni ...
*
Korangi railway station
Korangi railway station
( ur, , Sindhi: ڪورنگي ريلوي اسٽيشن) is located in Pakistan.
See also
* List of railway stations in Pakistan
* Pakistan Railways
*Korangi
Korangi ( ur, ) is one of the neighbourhoods of Korangi D ...