Attock District

Attock District (Urdu and ) is a district in Pothohar Plateau of the Punjab Province of Pakistan. Its capital is Attock city.

The district was created in April 1904 by the merging of tehsils of nearby districts. Its former name was Campbellpur. Today the district consists of 6 tehsils: Attock, Fateh Jang, Hazro, Hassan Abdal, Jand and Pindi Gheb.

It is located in the north of the Punjab province, bordered by Chakwal to the south, Mianwali to the southwest, Rawalpindi to the east, Kohat to the west, Nowshera to the northwest, and Swabi and Haripur to the north.

History
The original name of Attock District was Attock. It was changed to Campbellpur after the Commander-in-Chief of British forces Sir Colin Campbell, who rebuilt the city of Campbellpur. The name Attock was restored in 1978.

Demographics
According to the 2017 census of Pakistan the district had a population of 1,883,556, of which 490,908 (26.02%) lived in urban areas. Attock has a sex ratio of 1010 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 66.91%: 78.70% for males and 55.47% for females. 439,841 (23.35%) is under 10 years of age.

Religion
As per the 2017 census Islam is the predominant religion with 99.51% of the population.

Languages
In the 2017 census % of the population identified their first language as Punjabi, % as Hindko, % as Pashto and % as Urdu. In the previous census of 1998, the multiple-choice question did not have an option for Hindko; the percentages were % for Punjabi, % for Pashto and % Urdu. The Pashtun population of the area lie in the northern villages of the district such as in the area of Chach valley are the Yusufzai, Barakzai, Ghilzai, Akakhel, Tareen, Dilazak, Lodi and Sadozai.

The Punjabi dialect of the eastern Fateh Jang Tehsil is called Sohāī̃ and belongs to the Dhani dialect group. The dialects of Pindi Gheb Tehsil (called Ghebi) and of Attock (sometimes called Chhachi) have been classified as part of Hindko.

Tehsils
The district of Attock is divided into six tehsils
 * 1) Attock
 * 2) Fateh Jang
 * 3) Hasan Abdal
 * 4) Hazro
 * 5) Jand
 * 6) Pindi Gheb

Union Councils
The District contains a total of 72 Union Councils.

Education
Attock has a total of 1,287 government schools out of which 51 percent (657 schools) are for female students. The district has an enrolment of 224,487 in public sector schools