Lora Tehsil

Lora Tehsil () is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Abbottabad District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located in the southern part of the district and borders Punjab province.Abbottabad District map It covers an area of 187km². 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 district of Abbottabad was created as a Tehsil of Hazara District. After Pakistan′s independence from Britain on 14 August 1947, it was still a tehsil of Hazara until 1981.

In 1981 Abbottabad Tehsil became a district, this district was divided into two tehsils - Abbottabad and Havelian. Lora Tehsil used to be part of Havelian Tehsil but then the government of Pakistan divided Havelian Tehsil and made Lora Tehsil as a new tehsil.

Administration
Lora Tehsil  has 6 union council:Weekly Dengue Fever Bulletin - Directorate General Health Services 

 Goreeni
 Lora
 Nagri Totial
 Phallah
 Seer Gharbi
 Seer Sharqi

People
According to the 2023 census the total population of Lora Tehsil was 98,717 of which 48,662 were male and 50,054 were female.TABLE 3 : NUMBER OF RURAL LOCALITIES BY POPULATION SIZE AND THEIR POPULATION BY SEX, CENSUS-2023 The census also recorded religions as follows: 98,326 Muslim, 268 Christians, 10 Hindus, 2 Ahmadi Muslims, 1 Sikh, 1 Parsi and 60 listed as others.TABLE 9 : POPULATION BY SEX, RELIGION AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS - 2023

+ Religious affiliation of residents Religion Followers Percentage Muslim 98,326 99.65% Christian 268 0.27% Hindu 10 0.01% Ahmadis  2 <0.01% Sikh 1 <0.01% Parsi 1 <0.01% Others 60 0.06%

The mother tongue of residents were recorded as follows: 4,982 Urdu, 228 Punjabi, 5 Sindhi, 739 Pushto, 6 Balochi, 33 Kashmiri, 58 Saraiki, 83,676 Hindko, 36 Brahvi, 129 Shina, 15 Kalasha, 16 Kohistani and 17 listed as others.TABLE 11 : POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023 The overall literacy rate was 73.73% for the population aged 10 and above with male literacy being 84.09% and female 61.75%.TABLE 12 : LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023

+ Mother-tongue of Lora Tehsil residents (2023 census) Language Number of speakers Percentage Hindko 83,676 93.01% Urdu 4,982 5.54% Punjabi 228 0.25% Pushto 739 0.82% Shina 129 0.14% Saraiki 58 0.06% Brahvi 36 0.04% Kashmiri 33 0.04% Others 17 0.02% Sindhi 5 0.01% Balochi 6 0.01% Kalasha 15 0.02% Kohistani 16 0.02%

References

Category:Abbottabad District