# Haripur District

Haripur District (Hindko, Urdu: ضلع ہری پور) is a district in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Before obtaining the status of a district in 1991, Haripur was a tehsil of Abbottabad District Its headquarters are the city of Haripur. According to 2023 Pakistani census population of Haripur District is 1,173,056 (1.1 million).

## Geography

Geographically, the district borders the Abbottabad District to the northeast, Mansehra District to the northeast, the Punjab to the southeast, the Buner to the northwest, and Swabi to the west. The federal capital of Islamabad is adjacent to the district in the south.

## Demographics

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.

### Religion

Religion in Haripur District :
| Religion | 1941$^{:22}$ | 1941$^{:22}$ | 2017 | 2017 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Religion | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % |
| Islam | 178,545 | 95.04% | 1,000,322 | 99.88% | 1,169,155 | 99.67% |
| Hinduism | 7,278 | 3.87% | 13 | ~0% | 50 | 0.01% |
| Sikhism | 2,011 | 1.07% | — | — | 22 | ~0% |
| Christianity | 14 | 0.01% | 829 | 0.08% | 3,570 | 0.30% |
| Other | 6 | 0.01% | 351 | 0.04% | 259 | 0.02% |
| Total Population | 187,854 | 100% | 1,001,515 | 100% | 1,173,056 | 100% |

### Languages

* Hindko (80.32%)
* Pashto (14.7%)
* Urdu (2%)
* Punjabi (1.01%)
* Others (1.97%)
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.

## 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:
* Haripur Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل ہری پور)
* Khanpur Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل خانپور)
* Ghazi Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل غازی) There were 30 Union Councils in 1962 and in 1979 , 25 UC were reconstituted.

### Provincial Assembly

| Member of Provincial Assembly | Party Affiliation | Constituency | Year |
| Akbar Ayub Khan | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | PK-40 Haripur-I | 2024 |
| Arshad Ayub Khan | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | PK-41 Haripur-II | 2024 |
| Umer Ayub Khan | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | NA-18 Haripur | 2024 |
| Adeel Iqbal | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | PK-42 Haripur-III | 2024 |

## 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.