Mansehra District (Urdu, Hindko: ضلع مانسہرہ) is a district in the Hazara Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. Mansehra city serves as the headquarters of the district.
Mansehra was established as an independent district in 1976. It was previously a tehsil within the broader Hazara District.[3] In 1993, a former subdivision of Mansehra, Battagram, was separated as an independent district.[4] Similarly, in 2011, another subdivision of Mansehra, Kala Dhaka, was separated which is now known as Torghar District.
At the time of District the 2017 census, the district had 235,230 households and a population of 1,555,742. Mansehra had a sex ratio of 1015 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 62.56% - 75.25% for males and 50.41% for females. 144,898 (9.31%) lived in urban areas. 28.73% of the population were under 10 years of age. 427 (0.03%) people in the district were from religious minorities.[1]
Languages of Mansehra district (2017)
Similarly, 66.48% of the population spoke Hindko and 17.02% Pashto as their first language. 14.26% of the population spoke a language recorded as 'Others' on the census, mainly Kohistani languages.
Many of these, especially in the upper Kaghan Valley, are speakers of the Kohistani dialects. There are also speakers of the widely dispersed Gujari language, particularly in the Kaghan Valley.[6] The local variety is intermediate between the eastern dialects of Gujari (spoken in Azad Kashmir) and the western group (from Chitral, Swat and Gilgit).[7] There is also a small community in the village of Dana in Oghi Tehsil who speak the endangered Mankiyali language.[8] Many people can write and speak English.[citation needed]
The district is represented in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly by elected MPAs who represent the following constituencies:[9]
Constituency and current member :
The district is represented in the National Assembly of Pakistan by two elected MNAs who represent the following constituencies:
Mansehra District consists of six tehsils, with Tanawal Tehsil separated from the other five in December 2022.[10]
The Kala Dhaka tehsil was separated as Torghar District in 2011.
