Back কসুর জেলা Bengali/Bangla Kasūr District CEB Kasur (Distrikt) German ناحیه قصور Persian District de Kasur French कसूर जिला Hindi Distretto di Kasur Italian कसुर जिला MAI कसुर जिल्ला Nepali ਕਸੂਰ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ Punjabi

Kasur District

Kasur District
ضلع قصور
District of Punjab
From top left to right; Outskirts of the city of Kasur, Gohar Jageer village, Changa Manga, Fields near Ganda Singh Wala, Jinn Mosque of Kasur, Tomb of Bulleh Shah
Map of Kasur District (highlighted in red) within Punjab.
Map of Kasur District (highlighted in red) within Punjab.
Country Pakistan
Province Punjab
DivisionLahore
Established1 July 1976; 48 years ago (1 July 1976)
HeadquartersKasur
Administrative Subdivisions
04
  • Chunian Tehsil
    Kasur Tehsil
    Kot Radha Kishan Tehsil
    Pattoki Tehsil
Government
 • TypeDistrict Administration
 • District CommissionerAurangzeb Haider Khan
 • ConstituensyNA-131 Kasur-I
NA-132 Kasur-II
NA-133 Kasur-III
NA-134 Kasur-IV
Area
[1]
 • District of Punjab
3,995 km2 (1,542 sq mi)
Elevation
218 m (715 ft)
Population
 (2023)
 • District of Punjab
4,084,286
 • Density1,000/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
 • Urban
1,243,882
 • Rural
2,840,404
DemonymKasuri
Literacy
[2]
 • Literacy rate
  • Total:
    (62.85%)
  • Male:
    (67.97%)
  • Female:
    (57.44%)
Time zoneUTC+05:00 (PKT)
 • Summer (DST)DST is not observed
ZIP Code
55050
NWD (area) code049
ISO 3166 codePK-PB
Websitekasur.punjab.gov.pk

Kasur District (Punjabi, Urdu: ضلع قصور, romanized: Zilā Qasūr), is a district located in Lahore Division of Punjab, Pakistan. It came into existence on 1 July 1976;[3] prior to its creation, the area comprised two tehsils (Kasur Tehsil and Chunian Tehsil) of Lahore District. According to 2023 Pakistani census Kasur District had a population of 4,081,568 (4.8 million).

The district capital is Kasur city, the birth city of the Sufi poet Bulleh Shah, who is well known in that region as well as in the whole of Pakistan. The total area of the district is 3,995 square kilometres.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2023table1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023" (PDF).
  3. ^ 1998 District Census report of Kasur. Census publication. Vol. 112. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.
  4. ^ "Kasur Police". Archived from the original on 4 January 2008. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
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