Fort Abbas Tehsil

Fort Abbas (Urdu: تحصِيل فورٹ عباس) is a tehsil located in Bahawalnagar District, Punjab, Pakistan.

History

The area currently encompassed by Fort Abbas Tehsil was a thriving center of ancient Hakra civilization. A survey of the Cholistan region from 1947 to 1977 dated Hakra ceramics to 5000 BCE.^[2]

Geography

Fort Abbas Tehsil has an area of 2,536 km².^[3]

Adjacent tehsils

Haroonabad Tehsil (northeast)
Anupgarh Tehsil, Sri Ganganagar District, Rajasthan, India (northeast)
Gharsana Tehsil, Sri Ganganagar District, Rajasthan, India (southeast)
Khajuwala Tehsil, Bikaner District, Rajasthan, India (southwest)
Yazman Tehsil, Bahawalpur District (west)

Demographics

According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan there were 423,529 people living in Fort Abbas Tehsil and 67,121 households. Its population in 1998 was 285,596.^[5]

References

^ "DISTRICT AND TEHSIL LEVEL POPULATION SUMMARY WITH REGION BREAKUP: PUNJAB" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2018-01-03. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-25. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
^ Khan, Sohail (2016-06-17). "Ancient Hakra forts victim of officials neglect". The Nation. Nawa-i-Waqt. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
^ a b "PLANNING REPORT BAHAWALNAGAR 2008" (PDF). Punjab Municipal Development Fund Company: Punjab Municipal Services Improvement Project (PMSIP). 2008. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
^ "AREA & POPULATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS BY RURAL/URBAN: 1951-1998 CENSUSES" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
^ "PROVINCE WISE PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF CENSUS - 2017" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2018-05-02.