Sargodha District


Sargodha District , is a district of Punjab, Pakistan. The capital of the district is Sargodha. It is an agricultural district, wheat, rice, and sugarcane being its main crops. The Sargodha district and region is also famous for citrus fruit including Kinnow, orange and lemon. The district has an area of 5,864 km2.

Administration and tehsils

Sargodha city is the administrative headquarter of Sargodha Division and handles the population of about 8.1 million. Sargodha District is administratively divided into Seven Tehsils, which contain a total of 161 Union Councils. Following are the seven tehsils of Sargodha district:
The population of Sargodha grew rapidly with the arrival of Muslim refugees from East Punjab, fleeing from the religious violence that followed the partition of India and the independence of Pakistan in 1947. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan the district had a population of 2,665,979 of which 27.96% lived in urban settlements.
The most widely spoken language of the district is Punjabi, which according to the 1998 census is the first language of % of the population, and Urdu – of %. The below list shows the population of each of the seven tehsils of Sargodha district according to the 2017 Census of Pakistan along with area:
TehsilPopulation
Area
km²
Sargodha1,537,866
Kot Momin453,562
Bhalwal357,331
Shahpur353,969
Silanwali344,465
Sahiwal341,247
Bhera315,148

Etymology

It is believed that there was an old pond in the middle of the town where an old Hindu monk or sadhu used to live. The Hindi word for pond is "ser". Since the town had a modest population, people would refer the place as sergodha, the place where that famous Sadhu resided next to the pond.