Mansehra District

Mansehra District (Urdu, ) is a district in the Pakhli tract of the Hazara Division in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. Mansehra city serves as the headquarters of the district. Established as an independent district in 1976, it was previously a tehsil within the broader Hazara District. In 1993, a former subdivision of Mansehra: Battagram was separated as an independent district. Similarly, in 2011, another subdivision of Mansehra, known as Kala Dhaka, was separated which is now known as Torghar District. Demographics At the time of the 2017 census, the district had 235,230 households and a population of 1,555,742. Mansehra had a sex ratio of 1015 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 62.56% - 75.25% for males and 50.41% for females. 144,898 (9.31%) lived in urban areas. 28.73% of the population were under 10 years of age. 427 (0.03%) people in the district were from religious minorities.