Hyderābād District is a district

Districts of Pakistan

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 of Sindh

Sindh

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, Pakistan

Pakistan

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. It used to be an administrative division of the Sindh namely the Hyderabad Division, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. Its capital is the city of Hyderabad

Hyderabad, Sindh

is the second largest city in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is the seventh largest city in the country. The city was founded in 1768 by Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro upon the ruins of a Mauryan fishing village along the bank of the Indus known as Neroon Kot...

. The Kirthar National Park

Kirthar National Park

The Kirthar National Park is situated in the southwestern part of Sind Province in Pakistan. It was founded in 1974 and stretches over 3087 km², being the second largest National Park of Pakistan after Hingol National Park. The fauna comprises leopards, striped hyenas, wolves, ratels, urials,...

 is located in Hyderabad district. According to the 2010 census of Pakistan, the district had a population of 5 million of which 60.07% were urban, making it second-most urbanised

Urbanization

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 district of Sindh after Karachi

Karachi

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Administration and government

The city of Hyderabad

Hyderabad, Sindh

is the second largest city in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is the seventh largest city in the country. The city was founded in 1768 by Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro upon the ruins of a Mauryan fishing village along the bank of the Indus known as Neroon Kot...

 is where the district headquarters are located and the district government is seated. The current administrator is Aftab Ahmed Khatri. Hyderabad District is administratively subdivided into the following talukas:

1. Hyderabad City
2. Hyderabad Rural
3. Latifabad
   Latifabad
   Latifabad is a town in the southern suburbs of the city of Hyderabad, in Sindh, Pakistan.- History :Latifabad is named after the noted Sindhi Sufi poet, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai...
   
   
4. Qasimabad
   Qasimabad
   Qasimabad may refer to:Iran* Qasimabad, alternate name of Tian, Iran, a village in Lorestan Province, IranPakistan* Qasimabad, Hyderabad, a town in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan* Qasimabad, Karachi, a neighbourhood in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan...
   
   

As of 2008, the district Hyderabad enabled its e-Governance

EGovernment

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 platform to support people via the Internet and other new media platforms.

Till some years back, old Hyderabad district included the adjoining districts of present day Hyderabad, Matiari

Matiari District

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, Tando Allahyar

Tando Allahyar District

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 and Tando Muhammad Khan

Tando Muhammad Khan District

Tando Muhammad Khan District is one of the districts in the province of Sindh province, Pakistan. It is located in the south of the province.In North of the district, Hyderabad and Tando Allahyar districts are located, Badin district lies on South and East, West boundary is shared by district...

. Even before that till the early 1970s the district Hyderabad included all the four districts mentioned above as well as the District Badin

Badin

Badin is the main city and capital of Badin District in Sindh, Pakistan. It lies east of the Indus River. The region is swampy, fertile for growing rice. Some oil fields are located near the town in the seasonally inundated Rann of Kutch region...

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Demographics

Combined population of these four districts (not including Badin) as per the 1998 census was 2.891M out of which 1.469M people lived in urban while the rest 1.422M people lived in the rural areas. Following are the religious and linguistic figures of the old Hyderabad district as of 1998:



Religion

Islam: 82.0%

Hinduism: 12.02%

Christianity: 4.75%

Ahmaddiya: 0.13%

Others: 0.10%



Languages

Sindhi: 60.00%

Urdu: 27.00%

Punjabi: 5.02%

Pashto: 2.78%

Balochi: 1.20%

Seraiki: 0.96%

Others: 2.04% (mainly Gujarati/Memons)

However in the urban areas, Urdu speakers form a majority at 56.18% followed by Sindhis at 35.36%