Dera Ismail Khan District

Dera Ismail Khan District ضلع ڈیره اسماعیل خان
District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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Dera Ismail Khan District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Division	Dera Ismail Khan
Established	1849; 176 years ago (1849)
Founded by	British Raj
Headquarters	Dera Ismail Khan
Tehsils of Dera Ismail Khan District	05 Dera Ismail Khan Tehsil Paharpur Tehsil Paroa Tehsil Kulachi Tehsil Daraband Tehsil Local Area (Ex. Fr DI Khan) Tehsil
Government
• Type	Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Deputy Commissioner	Nasrullah Khan
• Constituency	NA-44 Dera Ismail Khan-I
• National Assembly Member	Faisal Amin Khan Gandapur (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf)
Area
• Total	9,334 km2 (3,604 sq mi)
Elevation	165 m (541 ft)
Population  (2023 Pakistani census)[1]
• Total	1,822,916
• Density	200/km2 (510/sq mi)
Literacy [2]
• Literacy rate	Total: 46.58% Male: 58.14% Female: 33.71%
Time zone	UTC+05:00 (PKT)
• Summer (DST)	DST is not observed
ZIP Code	29111
NWD (area) code	966
ISO 3166 code	PK-KP

Dera Ismail Khan District (Urdu and Saraiki: ضلع ڈیره اسماعیل خان, Pashto: دېره اسماعيل خان ولسوالۍ), often abbreviated as D.I. Khan is a district in the Dera Ismail Khan division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The capital of the district is the town of Dera Ismail Khan. The district has an area of 9,334 km² (3,604 sq mi) and a population of 1,822,916 as of the 2023 Census.^[3] After the Second Anglo-Sikh war in 1849 the district was annexed by the British as part of the Punjab and remained so until 1901 when the North West Frontier Province or NWFP (now renamed as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) was created.