Sohbatpur District

Sohbatpur District is a district in the Pakistani province of Balochistan.
It was created in May 2013 from parts of Jafarabad District.
The district has a population of over 240‚000.

Geography

Sohbatpur District consists of the following Tehsils:

Tehsil	Area	Pop.	Density	Literacy rate	Union Councils
Faridabad Tehsil	137	68,948	503.27	41.09%	...
Hayrvi Tehsil	73	16,891	231.38	42.60%	...
Manjipur Tehsil	82	23,624	288.10	43.85%	...
Saeed Muhammad Kanrani Tehsil	77	18,175	236.04	45.90%	...
Panhwar Tehsil	99	47,624	481.05	35.38%	...
Sohbatpur Tehsil	334	64,844	194.14	42.30%	...

The district has eight police stations.

As of the 2023 census, Sohbatpur district has 33,734 households and a population of 240,106. The district has a sex ratio of 103.06 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 41.02%: 53.26% for males and 28.42% for females. 103,225 are under 10 years of age. 14,728 live in urban areas.

In the 2023 census, Islam was the predominant religion with 98.99%, while Hindus constituted 0.75% of the population.

At the time of the 2023 census, 67.39% of the population spoke Balochi, 17.63% Sindhi, 7.92% Brahui and 6.38% Saraiki as their first language.