Vehari District
Vehari District (Urdu and ) is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city of Vehari is the capital of district while Burewala is the largest city of the district. Administrative divisions. The district of Vehari is administratively subdivided into three tehsils: and three subtehsils: History. The district was created on 1 July 1976 out of the three tehsils of Multan District (Vehari, Burewala and Mailsi). The name Vehari means low-lying settlement by a flood water channel. The district lies along the right bank of the river Sutlej, which forms its southern boundary. Demographics. At the  time of the 2017 census the district had a population of 2,902,081, of which 1,463,796 were males and 1,437,989 females. Rural population is 2,395,952 while the urban population is 506,129. The literacy rate was 55.36%. Muslims were the predominant religious community with 99.31% of the population while Christians were 0.65% of the population. At the time of the 2017 census, 74.69% of the population spoke Punjabi, 19.18% Saraiki and 5.12% Urdu as their first language. Geography. The district is located between and and borders with Bahawalnagar and Bahawalpur on the southern side, with Pakpattan on the eastern, with Khanewal and  Lodhran on western and with Sahiwal and Khanewal on northern side. The total area of the district is . It is about in length and approximately in breadth and it is sloping gently from northeast to southwest. Rise of maize. 141,000 acres of area was growing maize in 2015-16, increasing to 309,000 acres in 2019-20. The total production of maize stood at 428,000 tonnes in 2015-16, and rose to 1.1 million tonnes in 2019-20.