Dadu District


Dadu District, is a district of Sindh Province, Pakistan. With headquarters the city of Dadu, the district was created in 1931 by merging Kotri and Mahal Kohistan tehsils from Karachi District and Mehar, Khairpur Nathan Shah, Dadu, Johi and Sehwan tehsils from Larkana District. IN 2004, several talukas in the south were split off to create the new Jamshoro District. Its boundary touches with four districts of Sindh i.e. Jamshoro, Naushahro Feroze, Shaheed Benazirabad and Kamber Shahdadkot.

Demographics

The predominant first language is Sindhi, which as of 1998 was natively spoken by % of the population of the talukas of Dadu, Johi, Khairpur Nathan Shah and Mehar.

Talukas

District Dadu has four Talukas, as tabulated below,:
NameStatusPopulation
1998 Census		Population
2017 Census		Number of
Union Councils
DaduTaluka327,972460,48115
JohiTaluka207,383294,84810
Khairpur Nathan ShahTaluka253,309334,25812
MeharTaluka318,053460,67915

The District has 14 Circles, 111 Tapa and 351 Dehs.

Places of interest