Harnai District

Harnai District

ضلع ہرنائی
هرناۍ ولسوالۍ‎
Harnai District ضلع ہرنائی; هرناۍ ولسوالۍ‎
District of Balochistan
	Mountains in Harnai
	Map of Balochistan with Harnai District highlighted
	Coordinates: 30°06′20″N 67°56′23″E / 30.105447°N 67.939861°E
Country	Pakistan
Province	Balochistan
Division	Sibi
Headquarters	Harnai
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Deputy Commissioner	N/A
• District Police Officer	N/A
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area
• District of Balochistan	2,492 km2 (962 sq mi)
Population (2023)
• District of Balochistan	127,571
• Density	51/km2 (130/sq mi)
• Urban	33,433
• Rural	94,138
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)

Harnai (Pashto: هرناۍ ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع ہرنائی) is a district in the northeastern part of the Balochistan province of Pakistan. Harnai is the principal town of this district and serves as its administrative headquarters.

Until 2007, Harnai had been a tehsil of Sibi District, in August, the Balochistan Government announced the Harnai district would be created by splitting the Sibi district and forming the new district from Harnai and Shahrag tehsils and the sub-tehsil of Khost.^[1]

History

The name Harnai refers to an influential Hindu personality, Harnam Das, supposed founder of Harnai town, the capital of Harnai District. The town is quite close to Loralai, Ziarat, Sibi, and Quetta. Harnai is surrounded by imposing hills on all sides. The encircling hill ranges have the resounding names of 'Khalifat' and 'Zarghun'. Harnai proper has a population of about 200,000. The majority of the population of Harnai are Tareens and they mostly speak a unique dialect, or language, Tarino (Wanetsi), which is quite different from the Pushto spoken in other parts of Baluchistan and NWFP provinces, and is probably a mixture of Pushto, Urdu and other languages developed as a 'lingua franca' sometime during the 18th and 19th centuries, when a variety of people of different ethnic origins lived here. There seems to be no earlier historical record or trace of it.

Geography and climate

Harnai is surrounded by mountainous ranges. The minimum and maximum winter temperature of the area is −2˚C to 20˚C. The summer is extreme in the area and the minimum and maximum temperature fall between 20˚C to 48˚C. Harnai has a fertile rainy season during monsoon time. In general, Harnai has pleasant weather in the winter season. Harnai is one of the most beautiful cities of the Balochistan Province with plenty of water available in the streams. It is the only area of the production of fresh vegetables and fruits with fresh and clean water in the whole of Balochistan.

Administration

Tehsil	Area (km²)^[2]	Pop. (2023)	Density (ppl/km²) (2023)	Literacy rate (2023)^[3]	Union Councils
Harnai Tehsil	259	82,001	316.61	36.28%	...
Shahrig Tehsil	614	29,005	47.24	50.12%	...
Khoast Tehsil	1,619	16,565	10.23	40.35%	...

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1951	N/A	—
1961	N/A	—
1972	N/A	—
1981	N/A	—
1998	76,652	—
2017	97,052	+1.25%
2023	127,571	+4.66%
Sources:^[4]

Population

At the time of the 2023 census the district had a population of 127,571.^[5]

Religion

Religions in Harnai district (2023)^[6]
Religion			Percent
Islam			99.13%
Christianity			0.49%
Hinduism			0.33%
Other			0.05%

According to 2023 census, Islam is the predominate religion with 99.13% population.

Language

Languages of Harnai district (2023)

Pashto (89.24%)

Balochi (8.2%)

Sindhi (0.7%)

Others (1.86%)

At the time of the 2023 census, 89.24% of the population spoke Pashto, 8.2% Balochi and 0.7% Sindhi as their first language.

References

^ Harnai is new district of Balochistan Dawn newspaper, Published 31 August 2007, Retrieved 7 February 2024
^ "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, BALOCHISTAN" (PDF).
^ "LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023, BALOCHISTAN" (PDF).
^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/balochistan/dcr/table_1.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/balochistan/dcr/table_9.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Bibliography

1998 District census report of Sibi. Census publication. Vol. 17. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 1999.

External links

Harnai District at www.balochistan.gov.pk
Harnai District Development Profile 2011 Archived 2017-10-26 at the Wayback Machine

This Balochistan location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] Harnai is new district of Balochistan Dawn newspaper, Published 31 August 2007, Retrieved 7 February 2024

[2] "TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, BALOCHISTAN" (PDF).

[3] "LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023, BALOCHISTAN" (PDF).

[4] "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

[:1-5] ttps://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/balochistan/dcr/table_1.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[6] ttps://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/balochistan/dcr/table_9.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

v t e Districts of Balochistan, Pakistan
Provincial capital: Quetta
Kalat	Awaran Kalat Khuzdar Hub Lasbela Mastung Surab
Makran	Gwadar Kech Panjgur
Nasirabad	Jafarabad Jhal Magsi Kachhi Nasirabad Sohbatpur Usta Muhammad
Quetta	Chaman Killa Abdullah Pishin Karezat^d Quetta
Sibi	Dera Bugti Harnai Kohlu Sibi Ziarat
Zhob	Killa Saifullah Sherani Zhob
Rakhshan	Chagai^a Kharan^b Nushki^a Washuk^b Chaman^a
Loralai	Barkhan^c Loralai^c Musakhail^c Duki^c
^a - formerly part of Quetta Division; ^b - formerly part of Kalat Division; ^c - formerly part of Zhob Division ; ^d - abolished