Chaman District ( ps, چمن ولسوالی, bal, چمن, ur, ) is an administrative district of

Balochistan Province Balochistan (; bal, بلۏچستان; ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southwestern region of the country, Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan by land area but is the least populated one. It shares land ...

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

. Chaman District was created after bifurcating

Qila Abdullah District Kila Abdullah District or Qilla Abdullah (Urdu and Balochi: , ps, قلعه عبدالله ولسوالی) is a district in the north west of Balochistan province of Pakistan. Kila Abdullah was separated from Pishin District and made a new dist ...

. Chaman District is also known as the 'Dry port' for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects.

Administrative divisions

It contains the following

Tehsils A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

: * Chaman City Tehsil * Chaman Saddar Tehsil Sardar Asghar Khan Ashezai, a member of Awami National Party, is the current MPA of Chaman District. Recently, Capt. (R) Juma Dad Mandokhail has been appointed as the first Deputy Commissioner of the district.

Demographics

At the time of the 2017 census the district had a population of 434,561, of which 229,749 were males and 204,811 females. Rural population was 311,355 (71.65%) while the urban population was 123,206 (28.35%). The literacy rate was 45.50% - the male literacy rate was 59.54% while the female literacy rate was 29.80%. 1,140 people in the district were from religious minorities.

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 the predominant language, spoken by 97.72% of the population.

References

Districts of Balochistan, Pakistan Districts of Pakistan Chaman District Populated places in Balochistan, Pakistan {{Balochistan-geo-stub

Administrative divisions

Demographics

See also

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