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Lower Chitral District

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115: 84: 73: 1128: 586: 641: 671: 444:, Lower Chitral district has 46,028 households and a population of 320,407. The district has a sex ratio of 104.31 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 66.10%: 76.81% for males and 54.77% for females. 87,378 (27.46% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 57,157 (17.84%) live in urban areas. 1072: 974: 761: 1065: 114: 1423: 1058: 53: 273: 951: 1029: 885: 930: 772:
The district along with Upper Chitral District is represented by one elected MNA (Member of National Assembly) in
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The district is represented by one elected MPA (Member of Provincial Assembly) in
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is spoken in the southeast of the district by 9.36% of the population, while
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87.76% of the population spoke languages classifed as 'Others', namely
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is spoken by 1.59% of the population. There are some speakers of the
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province in Pakistan. It is mainly populated by the ethnic
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Index

District
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa


Chitral
Tirich Mir
Chitral Gol National Park
Lower Chitral District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Province
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Division
Malakand
Chitral
Deputy Commissioner
(PSP)
Time zone
UTC+5
PST
Tehsils
lowerchitral.kp.gov.pk
Khowar
Urdu
district
Malakand Division
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Kho people
2023 census
Khowar
Pashto

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