Lower Chitral District ( ps, چترال لر / کوز ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a
district
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in
Malakand Division
Malakand Division is an administrative division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. It contains the following districts:
Districts
* Bajaur District
* Buner District
* Upper Chitral District
* Lower Chitral District
* Lower Dir Distric ...
of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...
province in Pakistan.
Demographics
At the time of the 2017 census the district had a population of 278,328, of which 143,676 were males and 134,637 females. Rural population was 228,548 (82.11%) while the urban population was 49,780 (17.89%). The literacy rate was 63.00% - the male literacy rate was 75.71% while the female literacy rate was 49.37%. 3,902 (1.40%) were from religious minorities, almost all of whom are followers of the indigenous animistic Kalash faith that was once the dominant faith in the district before the spread of Islam.
89.48% of the population spoke languages recorded as 'Other' on the census. Most of these spoke
Khowar
Khowar () or Chitrali, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in Chitral and surrounding areas in Pakistan.
Khowar is the lingua franca of Chitral, and it is also spoken in the Gupis-Yasin and Ghizer districts of Gilgit-Baltistan, as we ...
(or Chitrali), the dominant language of Chitral as a whole. A minority spoke
Chitral Kalasha and
Wakhi, with the
Kalasha
A kalasha, also spelled kalash or kalasa, also called ghat or ghot ( sa, कलश , Telugu: కలశము Kannada: ಕಳಶ literally "pitcher, pot"), is a metal (brass, copper, silver or gold) pot with a large base and small mouth, large eno ...
dominating several valleys and the
Wakhis spread throughout the north of the district near the Afghan border.
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 ...
is spoken in the southeast of the district by 9.11% of the population.
There are some speakers of the
Madaklasht dialect, a
Persian dialect
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and u ...
which is considered a mix of
Dari
Dari (, , ), also known as Dari Persian (, ), is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the term officially recognised and promoted since 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language,Lazard, G.Darī ...
and
Tajik.
Administrative Divisions
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Chitral Tehsil
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Drosh Tehsil
Drosh ( ur, دروش) is a city located in the Chitral District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.The city has a population of about 20,000 people.
History
Drosh town was the property of Mehtar of Chitral. Chitral (princely state), ...
Religious Demographics
References
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Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Lower Chitral District