Haripur District

During British rule what now constitutes Haripur district was an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Hazara District. The tehsil was described by the Imperial Gazetteer of India, compiled over a century ago during British rule as follows: On 30 June 1976, the Pakistani government bifurcated Hazara District, Mansehra Tehsil became a district in its own right and the two remaining tehsils Abbottabad and Haripur formed the district of Abbottabad. In 1991 the tehsil of Haripur was split off from Abbottabad to form Haripur District. ==Geography==

The district of Haripur borders Abbottabad District to the east, Mansehra District to the northeast, the Punjab to the southeast, Buner to the northwest, and Swabi to the west. The federal capital of Islamabad is adjacent to the district in the south. Haripur is traversed by several significant rivers, including the Indus, Sirin, Dauor, and Haro. • The Indus River flows into Haripur from Darband in the northwest, flowing along the district’s western boundary before exiting at Ghazi. It serves as the primary source for Tarbela Lake, a major reservoir in the region. ==Demographics==

{{Historical populations As of the 2023 census, Haripur district has 192,451 households and a population of 1,174,783. The district has a sex ratio of 101.43 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 74.88%: 84.13% for males and 65.61% for females. 282,230 (24.06% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 147,765 (12.58%) live in urban areas. Languages At the time of the 2023 census, 942,172 of the population spoke Hindko, 172,471 spoke Pashto, 23,423 Urdu, and 11,854 Punjabi and 23,136 others as their first language. Ethnic groups Gujjar is a major ethnic of the Haripur district. Other main ethnic groups of the Haripur include: Hindkowan and Kohistani. Religion ==Administration==

The district of Haripur was a tehsil (sub-division) of the Abbottabad District until 1992. After that, it received the status of an independent district. Currently, Haripur District is divided into three Tehsils: There were 30 Union Councils in 1962 and in 1979, 25 UC were reconstituted. Provincial Assembly ==Education==

Haripur District has two government-funded postgraduate colleges, providing higher-level education, as well as four-degree colleges for women. The Haripur University was established in 2012, which was initially a Haripur campus (established in March 2008) of the Hazara University .The campus was upgraded to a full-fledged University of Haripur (UoH) in 2012 by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In addition, the project of the Pak-Austria Fachhochschule Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology has also been functioning and is providing higher education since 2017 in village Mang at the main Khanpur Road in Haripur. ==See also==