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lahoredivision.punjab.gov.pk}}| footnotes = }}Lahore Division is an administrative division of Punjab Province, Pakistan. It comprises four Districts - Kasur, Lahore, Nankana Sahib and Sheikhupura. The Lahore Division is commanded by a Commissioner to manage the division. Under the Commissioner there are four Additional Commissioners. For each district there is a Deputy Commissioner. Under the reforms of 2000, this tier of government was abolished, but in 2008 divisions were restored.Divisions/Districts of Pakistan {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060930093025weblink |date=2006-09-30 }}WEB,weblink Firewall Notification, health.punjab.gov.pk,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150416005317weblink">weblink 2015-04-16, WEB,weblink Punjab Government Plans to Carve a New District from Lahore, 6 January 2009, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100603222725weblink">weblink 2010-06-03,

History

Lahore Division was originally an administrative division of the Punjab Province of British India. It extended along the right bank of the Sutlej River from the Himalaya to Multan division, and comprised the six districts of Sialkot, Gujranwala, Lahore, Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Gujrat. The total area of the division was {{convert|17154|sqmi|km2|abbr=on|order=flip}} and the population according to the 1901 census of India was 5,598,463.WEB,weblink Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 16, page 96 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library, dsal.uchicago.edu, 27 April 2018, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140717163709weblink">weblink 17 July 2014, The commissioner for the division also exercised political control over the hill state of Chamba. The Commissioner's headquarters were at Lahore and Dalhousie.The total population of the Division increased from 4,696,636 in 1881 to 5,321,535 in 1891, and 5,598,463 in 1901. The total area was {{convert|17154|sqmi|km2|order=flip}}, and the density of population was 326 persons per square mile, compared with 208 for British territory in the Province as a whole. In 1901 Muslims numbered 3,332,175, or 60 percent of the total; while other religions included Hindus, 1,567,402; Sikhs, 661,320; Jains, 5,5,07; Buddhists, 6; Parsis, 228; and Christians, 31,815, of whom 25,248 were natives.WEB,weblink Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 16, page 95 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library, dsal.uchicago.edu, 27 April 2018, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160303222359weblink">weblink 3 March 2016, The division contained six districts:{| class="wikitable"! District! Area(square miles)! Population(1901 census figures)! Land revenue and cesses(thousands of rupees).Gujrat District>Gujrat| 4,771| 497,706| 6,90Lahore District>Lahore | 3,704| 1,162,109| 12,55Amritsar District>Amritsar| 1,601| 1,023,828| 14,54Gurdaspur District>Gurdaspur| 1,889| 940,334| 17,72Sialkot District>Sialkot| 1,991| 1,083,909| 17,27Gujranwala District>Gujranwala| 3,198| 890,557| 12,89| Total| 17,154| 5,598,463| 81,87Gurdaspur included a few square miles of mountainous country, enclosing the hill station of Dalhousie (highest, point, 7,687 feet) ; but otherwise the Division was flat. It contained 9,869 villages and 41 towns, of which the largest are Lahore (population, 202,964, including cantonment), Amristar(162,429), Sialkot (57,956), Gujranwala (29,224), Batala (27,365), and Gujrat (22,022). In commercial importance Lahore and Amritsar dwarfed all other towns in the Division, but Sialkot and Batala were considerably more than local centres. Besides the administrative charge of six British Districts, the Commissioner of Lahore had political control over the Native State of Chamba, which had an area of {{convert|3216|sqmi|km2|order=flip}} and a population (1901) of 127,834.

Districts

Lahore division consists of following districts:WEB,weblink Lahore Division | Local Government and Community Development, {| class="wikitable"! District! Area (sq mi)! Population (2022)Lahore District>Lahore| 1,772| 11,126,285Sheikhupura District>Sheikhupura| 3,030| 3,460,426Kasur District>Kasur| 3,995| 3,454,996Nankana Sahib District>Nankana Sahib| 2,960| 1,356,374| Total| 11,727| 19,398,081

Independence

With the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, Lahore Division was divided among the two countries. with the eastern half becoming Amritsar District.

See also

• Divisions of Pakistan
• Divisions of Punjab, Pakistan

References

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