Mianwali
Mianwali
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District Mianwali | | |
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| Elevation | 210 m (690 ft) | |
| Population ( Calling code | 0459 | |
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Mianwali (
History
Mianwali District was an agricultural region with forests during the
Before the British rule, the area formed an integral portion of the
Geography
The city of Mianwali is located in North-west region of the
Chasma Nuclear Power Plant
The
It was established in 2000, the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant became operational, when it joined the nation's grid system with China National Nuclear Corporation overseeing the grid connections of the power plant. In 2004, the China National Nuclear Corporation was awarded contract for building a second unit based on the first reactor, followed by contracting for two more reactors in 2011.
M.M Alam Pakistan Airforce Base
Originally a
Namal Institute
The Namal Institute is a private university about 20 min drive from the city of Mianwali. The institute is located on 30 km, Talagang Mianwali Road near Namal Lake. Initially it was established as an affiliate college of the University of Bradford, UK. Later in 2019, Namal College acquired a DAI (Degree Awarding Institute) status and thus became Namal Institute. There are further plans to turn the small campus into an education city, construction is already underway.[6]
Demographics
Mianwali city has an urban population of 118,883,[1] accounting for only about 20.82% of Mianwali District's population. The rest of 79.18% of the rural population is spread around the district in small villages called Moza's. The average household size comes about to 7.1, that means on average 7 people live in one house. This is in line with Joint family culture prominent in North-West regions of Pakistan. Mianwali has a literacy ratio of about 42.8%, considerably less than other urban cities in Punjab.
As for male to female ratio, Male inhabitants count for 63.8% of population and female inhabitants account for the remaining 22.2%. This number may somewhat be inaccurate, as Parda culture doesn't allow audience with non-Mahrams. So census teams might have not been able to accurately access the number of females in each house.
Language
The main languages spoken in the city include Punjabi, Pashto and Urdu.
See also
- Mianwali District
- List of Cities of Punjab, Pakistan by Area
References
- ^ a b "Mianwali city population per 2017 Census of Pakistan". Citypopulation.de website. Archived from the original on 29 June 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
- ^ "Tehsils and Unions in the District of Mianwali (Mianwali city and Mianwali Tehsil)". National Reconstruction Bureau, Government of Pakistan website. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
- ^ "SDPOs and Police Stations - Mianwali". Punjab Police, Government of the Punjab website. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
- ^ "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 17, page 318 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". Retrieved 4 June 2023.
- ^ "Pakistan seeks control gear, transformer bay for 184-MW Chashma hydro project". Hydro Review website. 23 January 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
- ^ "Namal Institute". www.namal.edu.pk. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
External links
- "Early history of Niazi tribe[usurped]"
- "Niazi Chiefs in the Mughal empire[usurped]"
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 354.