Nowshera District
Nowshera (Pashto: نوشار/نوشہرہ) is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan - the principal city is Nowshera. Nowshera District is divided into 47 Union Councils and 5 provincial seats. The district was part of the Peshawar Metropolitan Region. Area
Map of Nowshera district
1,748 km² total area. The population density is 608 persons per square kilometre. The
main source of income of the region is agriculture. Until 1988 Nowsehra was a tehsil (sub division) of Peshawar; in 1988 it became a district. Languages and demography
According to the 1998 census of Pakistan the population was 87, a population density of 500.2 persons per km². The annual growth rate was 2.9% and the proportion of urban dwellers was 26%. Muslims form 99% of the population; 0.5% are Christian, 0.3% Ahmadi and 0.1% Hindu. The main Language is Pushto followed by Jandali and Majhi dialects of Punjabi Language which is spoken in areas of Nowshera Kalan, Akora Khattak, Shaidu, Jehangira and several other villages situated along the Grand Trunk Road. The literacy rate is 89%.
