Dera Ghazi Khan District

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Dera Ghazi Khan (Urdu: ڈیرہ غازی خان) is a district in Punjab, Pakistan. The district of Dera Ghazi Khan contains an area of 5,306 m². The district is a long narrow strip of country, 198 m. in length, sloping gradually from the hills which form its western boundary to the river Indus on the east.

Below the hills the country is high and arid, generally level, but sometimes rolling in sandy undulations, and much intersected by hill torrents, 201 in number. With the exceptions of two, these streams dry up after the rains, and their influence is only felt for a few miles below the hills.

The eastern portion of the district is at a level sufficiently low to benefit by the floods of the Indus. A barren tract intervenes between these zones, and is beyond the reach of the hill streams on the one hand and of the Indus on the other. Although liable to great extren~es of temperature, and to a very scanty rainfall, the district is not unhealthy.

The population in 1901 was 471,149 - the great majority being Baluch Muslims. The frontier tribes on the Dera Ghazi Khan border include the Qaisrani, Bozdar, Khosa, Leghari, Khetran, Gurchani, Mazari, Marri and Bugti tribes. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edition published in 1911 mentions Baluchs of this area as:

Frank and open in his manners, fairly truthful, faithful to his word, temperate and enduring, and looking upon courage as the highest virtue, the true Baluch of the Derajat is a pleasant man to have dealings with.[1]

The district had a population of 1,643,118 of which 13.76% were urban in 1998.[2]

[edit] Administration

The district has 3 tehsils: [3]

Dera Ghazi Khan
Taunsa Sharif
De-Ex.Area of D.G.Khan

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Administrative Divisions of Punjab (Pakistan)
Capital	Lahore
Districts	Attock \| Bahawalnagar \| Bahawalpur \| Bhakkar \| Chakwal \| Dera Ghazi Khan \| Faisalabad \| Gujranwala \| Gujrat \| Hafizabad \| Jhang \| Jhelum \| Kasur \| Khanewal \| Khushab \| Lahore \| Layyah \| Lodhran \| Mandi Bahauddin \| Mianwali \| Multan \| Muzaffargarh \| Nankana Sahib \| Narowal \| Okara \| Pakpattan \| Rahim Yar Khan \| Rajanpur \| Rawalpindi \| Sahiwal \| Sargodha \| Sheikhupura \| Sialkot \| Toba Tek Singh \| Vehari