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Encyclopedia > Barkhan District
Barkhan District
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Area 3,411 km²
Population (2005 Estimate)
 • Density
185,000
 • 54.24/km²
Time zone PST (UTC+4:30)
Established
 • District Nazim
 • District Naib Nazim
 • District Council
 • Number of Tehsils
December 1991
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Main language(s) Balochi
Website http://www.bdd.sdnpk.org/barkhan.htm

Barkhan (Urdu: بارکھان ) district is in the center of Balochistan province of Pakistan. Barkhan is derived from Baro Khan, the founder of the Barozai family of Pannis, who either ruled this area on behalf of the governors of Sibi or owned it himself. Barkhan, was given the status of a district on 31 December 1991. Presently, there is one sub-division, one tehsil and one sub-tehsil in the district. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (699x639, 23 KB) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 10,000 km² and 100,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Pakistan Standard Time (PST) is the time zone for Pakistan. ... The equivalent terms tehsil, tahsil, tahasil, taluka, taluk, and taluq refer to a unit of government in some countries of the Indian subcontinent. ... Balochi (also Baluchi, Baloci or Baluci) is a Southeastern Iranian language. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... (اردو), historically spelled Ordu, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to Indo-European family of languages. ... The Districts of Pakistan form the third tier of government in Pakistan, ranking as subdivisions of the provinces of Pakistan. ... The province of Balochistan (or Baluchistan) (Urdu: بلوچستان) in Pakistan is the largest in the country by geographical area. ... Sibi is a district in the center of Balochistan province of Pakistan. ...


Population

The population of Barkhan is estimated to be over 185,000 in 2005. The whole population has always been rural. Over 99% of the people of the area are Muslims. The major Baloch tribe in the district is Khetran.language spoken in this area is Khetrani . posted by MUHAMMAD HARIS SHAJAR KHAN KHETRAN. A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... The Baloch (Persian: بلوچ alternative transliterations Baluch, Balouch, Balooch, Balush, Balosh, Baloosh, Baloush et al. ... Khetran (Urdu: کھیتران ) is a Baloch tribe in Balochistan, Pakistan. ...


See also

Administrative Divisions of Balochistan (Pakistan) Flag of Pakistan
Capital Quetta
Districts Awaran | Barkhan | Bolan | Chagai | Dera Bugti | Gwadar | Jafarabad | Jhal Magsi | Kalat | Kech | Kharan | Khuzdar | Kohlu | Lasbela | Loralai | Mastung | Musakhel | Nasirabad | Nushki | Panjgur | Pishin | Qilla Abdullah | Qilla Saifullah | Quetta | Sibi | Zhob | Ziarat 


 
 

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