Narowal District

Narowal District (Punjabi and ), located in upper punjab, is a district in the province of Punjab of Pakistan. Narowal city is the capital of the district. During the British rule, Narowal was the town of Raya Khas tehsil of Sialkot District. Narowal District formed in 1991, when the two tehsils of Narowal and Shakargarh were split off from Sialkot District.

Administration
The district is administratively divided into the following three tehsils (subdivisions), which contain a total of 74 Union Councils:

Geography
The district is bounded by on the northwest by Sialkot, by India on the north by Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, on the southeast by the Gurdaspur district and Pathankot district, on the south by Amritsar district, and on the southwest by Sheikhupura district in Pakistan.

The total area of the district is approximately 2,337 square kilometres. Prior to the creation of Zafarwal Tehsil in July 2009, Narowal Tehsil occupied 1,065 square kilometres while the remaining area (1,272 square kilometres) fell in Shakargarh Tehsil. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, Narowal District's population was 1,256,097, of which only 12.11% were urbans. According to the 2017 census, total population of District Narowal is 1.709 million. Male population is 0.853 m (49.96%) and Female population is 0.855 m (50.04%).

Demography
At the time of the 2017 census, Narowal district had 240,065 households and a population of 1,707,575. Sialkot had a sex ratio of 1033 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 73.51% - 79.40% for males and 67.97% for females. 256,657 (15.03%) lived in urban areas. 461,876 (27.05%) were under 10 years of age. In 2023, the district had 281,628 households and a population of 1,950,954.

Language
At the time of the 2017 census, 97.24% of the population spoke Punjabi and 1.66% Urdu as their first language.

Notable people

 * Dev Anand, Bollywood actor, director & producer
 * Muhammad Tariq Anis : Ex MPA and MNA
 * Daniyal Aziz, State Minister of Broadcasting
 * Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Punjabi poet
 * Anwar Aziz Chaudhry, politician
 * Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, justice
 * Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani revolutionary poet.
 * Abrar-ul-Haq, singer-songwriter, philanthropist, politician
 * Syed Saeed ul Hassan, Minister of Punjab for Auqaf and Religious Affairs
 * Adnan Ilyas, cricketer
 * Ahsan Iqbal, Interior Minister of Pakistan
 * Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan, longest serving Parliamentarian in the history of Pakistan.
 * Rajendra Kumar, film actor, director, producer, recipient of Padma Shri (1969)
 * Naseer Ahmad Malhi, one of the founding fathers of Pakistan and the first education minister of Pakistan
 * Chaudhry Abdul Rahim, politician
 * Des Raj, cricket umpire
 * Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, writer
 * Gurbachan Singh Salaria, Indian Army Officer
 * Kidar Sharma, Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, and Lyricist of Hindi films.
 * Z. A. Suleri, political journalist