Structure of Administrative Units
Pakistan's administrative units are as follows:
| No. | Administrative unit | Local name | Capital | Population | Area (km²) | Population density (inh. per km²) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balochistan (province) | بلوچستان | Quetta | 4.8% | 39.3% | 18.9 | |
| 2 | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (province) | خیبرپختونخوا | Peshawar | 12.9% | 8.5% | 238.1 | |
| 3 | Punjab (province) | پنجاب | Lahore | 53.7% | 23.3% | 358.5 | |
| 4 | Sindh (province) | سنڌ سندھ | Karachi | 22.2% | 16.0% | 216 | |
| 5 | Islamabad Capital Territory | وفاقی دارالحکومت | Islamabad | 0.6% | 0.1% | 888.8 | |
| 6 | Federally Administered Tribal Areas | وفاقی قبائلی علاقہ جات | Peshawar | 2.3% | 3.1% | 116.7 | |
| 7 | Azad Kashmir | آزاد کشمیر | Muzaffarabad | 2.2% | 1.5% | 223.6 | |
| 8 | Gilgit–Baltistan | گلگت - بلتستان གིལྒིཏ་བལྟིསྟན | Gilgit | 1.3% | 8.2% | 24.8 | |
| Pakistan | پاکستان | Islamabad | 182,000,000 | 881,889 | ?? |
The provinces are sub-divided into 105 districts called zillahs (Urdu: ضلع). Zillahs are further subdivided into sub-districts called tehsils (Urdu: تحصیل) (roughly equivalent to counties). The term "Tehsil" is used everywhere except in Sindh province, where the term taluka (Urdu: تعلقہ) predominates. Tehsils may contain villages or municipalities. Pakistan has over five thousand local governments. Since 2001, these have been led by democratically elected local councils, each headed by a Nazim (Urdu: ناظم) ("supervisor" or "mayor"). Women have been allotted a minimum of 33% of the seats on these councils. Some districts, incorporating large metropolitan areas, are called City Districts. A City District may contain subdivisions called Towns and Union Councils.
The diagram below outlines the six tiers of government in Pakistan, together with an example.
| Federal government | |||||||||||||||||
| Province (e.g. Sindh) | |||||||||||||||||
| Division (e.g. Larkana Division) | |||||||||||||||||
| District (e.g. Shikarpur) | |||||||||||||||||
| Tehsil/Taluka/Town (e.g. Naudero) | |||||||||||||||||
| Union Council (e.g. Dhamrah) | |||||||||||||||||
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