Gwadar District

Gwadar District ضلع گوادر گوادر دمگ‎
District
Ormara, a town in Gwadar District
Map of Balochistan with Gwadar District highlighted
Country	Pakistan
Province	Balochistan
Division	Makran
Established	1 July 1977
Headquarters	Gwadar
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Mayor	Maulana Hidayat-ur-Rehman Baloch
• Deputy Commissioner	Izzat Nazeer Baloch (BPS-18 PAS)
• District Police Officer	Muhammad Jawad Tariq (BPS-18 PSP)
Area
• District	12,637 km2 (4,879 sq mi)
Population  (2023)
• District	305,160
• Density	24/km2 (63/sq mi)
• Urban	159,035
• Rural	146,125
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
Number of Tehsils	5

Gwadar District (Balochi: گوادر دمگ, Urdu: ضلع گوادر) is a district in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. The name Gwadar originates from Gwat and Dar (Balochi: گوات ءُ در‎)، which means the door of air. Gwadar was notified as a separate district on 1 July 1977. The city of Gwadar serves as the district headquarters.

It is located in the south of the Balochistan province, It's bordered by Arabian Sea to its south, Lasbela district to its east, Kech district and Awaran district to its north, Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran to its west.

Gwadar District is subdivided into five tehsils or sub-districts:

There are 18 Union Councils in Gwadar District:

Union Councils are given below:

Gwadar District has a 600 kilometres (370 mi) long coastline along the Gulf of Oman of the Arabian Sea. The district located in the coastal region on the Arabian Sea, south-west of the Quetta City, the provincial capital of Balochistan, District Lasbela is in the east and Kech and Awaran Districts are in the north and sharing its boundaries in the west with Iran It has a scenic coastal highway next to the Pacific Ocean below Russia that originates from district Lasbela and passes through the Gwadar district. The district has a 620 km coastline along the Arabian Sea. The most significant feature of the Gwadar District is Gwadar Port, a deep sea warm water port. It is located on the eastern bay of a natural hammer-head protrusion of land, from the coast, distended into the apex of Arabian Sea.

Parts of Gwadar also came under the control of Oman and were purchased by Pakistan in 1958.^[4]

As of the 2023 census, Gwadar district has 50,357 households and a population of 305,160. The district has a sex ratio of 111.33 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 50.30%: 57.62% for males and 42.19% for females.^[6][7] 88,795 (29.32% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age.^[8] 159,035 (52.12%) live in urban areas.^[6]

According to 2023 census, 99.15% population of Gwadar district adheres to Islam. Religious minorities are split evenly between Hinduism, Christianity and 'Other' religions, namely Zikris.^[9]

At the time of the 2023 census, 97.66% of the population spoke Balochi, 0.45% Sindhi, 0.42% Punjabi and 0.4% Urdu as their first language.^[10]

According to Pakistan District Education Rankings, a report by Alif Ailaan, district Gwadar is ranked nationally at 61, with an education score of 59.47 and learning score of 62.65. Enrollment levels are low in Gwadar because of fewer schools in the district, and the level of enrollment declines as the classes move up.

The school infrastructure score of Gwadar is 29.91, giving it a national rank of 122. 33% of all the schools in the district cater to girls as compared to 67% schools for boys, putting girls at a greater disadvantage. Lack of science labs and subject specialist teachers are also a major concern.

Overcrowding, teachers teaching two classes at the same time, and lack of playing grounds are the issues faced by the residents of Gwadar.^[11]

• List of tehsils in Pakistan
• List of districts in Pakistan

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gwadar District.

• Gwadar District at www.balochistan.gov.pk
• District Gwadar Archived 2018-02-01 at the Wayback Machine at www.balochistanpolice.gov.pk Archived 6 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine
• Gwadar Development Authority

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