Khairpur District

Khairpur District (خيرپور ضلعو, ) is a district in the Pakistani province of Sindh in Sukkur Division.

At the 2017 census, it was the fifth most populated district in the province after four districts of Karachi city, with 2.4 million inhabitants. The headquarters of the district is the city of Khairpur. The district is further divided into eight sub-districts: Khairpur Tehsil, Mirwah Tehsil, Kot Diji Tehsil, Kingri Tehsil, Sobho Dero Tehsil, Gambat Tehsil, Faiz Ganj Tehsil and Nara Tehsil.

Location
Khairpur district is located between middle and northern Sindh. It is bounded on the north by Shikarpur District and Sukkur District, on the east by India, on the south by Sanghar District and Nawabshah District, and on the west by Larkana District, Naushahro Feroze District and Indus River. The revised area of the district is 15,910 km2.

Demographics
At the time of the 2017 census, Khairpur district had 405,726 households and a population of 2,405,523. Khairpur had a sex ratio of 939 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 49.15%: 62.08% for males and 35.49% for females. 777,006 (32.31%) lived in urban areas. 796,830 (33.13%) were under 10 years of age. In 2023, the district had 452,588 households and a population of 2,597,535.

The majority religion is Islam, with 97.16% of the population. Hinduism (including those from Scheduled Castes) is practiced by 2.76% of the population.

At the time of the 2017 census, 95.64% of the population spoke Sindhi and 1.55% Punjabi as their first language.

The National Assembly.
The District of Khairpur is mapped into three constituencies at the national level. The constituencies include NA-208 Khairpur-I, NA-209 Khairpur-II, and NA-210 Khairpur-III.

Following is the list of the Member National Assemblies(MNAs) representing district in the National Assembly of Pakistan.

The Provincial Assembly
The District of Khairpur is represented by the seven constituencies in the Provincial Assembly of Sindh.

Administration
It has 8 tehsils, 76 Union councils, 11 towns, 6800 Villages and total population 1,546,587 (Male 810,448 and Female Population 736,139) according to (Census) 1998.

The eight tehsils of the district are:
 * Faiz Ganj Tehsil
 * Gambat Tehsil
 * Khairpur Tehsil
 * Kingri Tehsil
 * Kot Diji Tehsil
 * Nara Tehsil
 * Sobho Dero Tehsil
 * Mirwah Tehsil

People from Khairpur District

 * Pir Pagaro - President of Pakistan Muslim League (F)
 * Sachal Sarmast - eighteenth-Century Sufi Poet
 * Qaim Ali Shah - former Chief Minister of Sindh Province
 * Ghous Ali Shah - former Defense Minister of Pakistan and Former Chief Minister of Sindh province
 * Mir Ali Murad Talpur - former ruler of the princely state of Khairpur