Khairpur District

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Khairpur

Area	15,910 km²
Population (1998) • Density	1,515,000 • 95.2/km²
Time zone	PST (UTC+4:30)
Established • District Nazim • District Naib Nazim • District Council • Number of Tehsils	1546 • Pir Syed Niaz Hussain Shah Jilani • Mir Dinal Khan Talpur • •
Main language(s)	Sindhi
Websites	[1]
	Khairpur Heritage

The Khairpur district (Urdu: خیر پور ) is a district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Khairpur is the principal city of the district.

Khairpur District is located in the Northern Sindh and bounded on the north by Shikarpur and Sukkur on the east by India. on the south by Sanghar and Nawabshah and on the west by Larkana and drives its name from the town the total are of the district is 15,910 square kilometres. At the time of independence. Khairpur was one of the Sovereign states that acceded the subjects of defence, communications and foreign affairs to Pakistan between 1947 to 1949. Khairpur was Ruled by Mirs (ameers) of the Talpur dynasty from 1783 to 1955 until it merged with the state of Pakistan which abolished the Monarchy.

The district had a population of 1,546,587 of which 23.23% were urban in 1998. [2] The average annual growth rate of the population in 2.71%. As per definition of Board of Revenue Sindh, Place of human habitation having at least ten house are called settlement. There are 1,709 rural settlements in the district having population of 200 to 1000+ souls.