Lower Tanawal Tehsil () is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Abbottabad District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It covers an area of .TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
History During the British rule, the current district of Abbottabad was created as a Tehsil of Hazara District.Abbottābād Tahsīl - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 5, p. 1 After Pakistan′s independence from Britain on 14 August 1947, it remained a tehsil of Hazara until 1981 when the old Abbottabad Tehsil became a district, containing two tehsils - Abbottabad and Havelian. In recent years Lower Tanawal itself has been created as a tehsil in its own right.
Demography According to the 2023 census the total population of Lower Tanawal Tehsil was 60,262 of which 29,960 were male and 30,300 were female.TABLE 3 : NUMBER OF RURAL LOCALITIES BY POPULATION SIZE AND THEIR POPULATION BY SEX, CENSUS-2023 The census also recorded religious affiliation as follows: 60097 Muslim, 129 Christians, 5 Hindus, 1 Ahmadi Muslim, 1 Sikh and 4 listed as others.TABLE 9 : POPULATION BY SEX, RELIGION AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS - 2023
+ Religious affiliation of residents Religion Followers Percentage Muslim 60,097 99.77% Christian 129 0.21% Hindu 5 0.01% Ahmadis 1 <0.00% Sikh 1 <0.00% Others 4 0.01%
The mother tongue of residents were recorded as follows: 520 Urdu, 12 Punjabi, 1 Sindhi, 177 Pushto, 4 Kashmiri, 26 Saraiki, 59,449 Hindko, 8 Brahvi, 13 Shina, 2 Balti, 1 Mewati, 1 Kohistani and 25 listed as others.TABLE 11 : POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023
+ Mother tongue of residents Language Speakers Percentage Urdu 520 0.86% Punjabi 12 0.02% Sindhi 1 0.00% Pushto 177 0.29% Kashmiri 4 0.01% Saraiki 26 0.04% Hindko 59,449 98.69% Brahvi 8 0.01% Shina 13 0.02% Balti 2 0.00% Mewati 1 0.00% Kohistani 1 0.00% Others 25 0.04%
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