Khanpur Tehsil, Haripur
town and union council in Haripur district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Khanpur Tehsil (Urdu: خان پور) is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Haripur District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, the mayor of khanpur Tehsil is Raja Haroon Sikandar grandson of Former chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Raja Sikandar Zaman. Khanpur Dam is located near Khanpur Town. It is located to the south of the district capital Haripur.
Demography
According to the 2023 census the total population of Khanpur Tehsil was 186,886 of which 92,914 were male and 93,969 were female. The census also recorded religious affiliation as follows: 186197 Muslim, 404 Christians, 17 Hindus, 1 Ahmadi Muslim, 5 Sikhs and 11 listed as others.
The mother tongue of residents were recorded as follows: 2,933 Urdu, 817 Punjabi, 4 Sindhi, 11,755 Pushto, 9 Balochi, 216 Kashmiri, 114 Saraiki, 167,790 Hindko, 45 Brahvi, 20 Shina, 21 Balti, 320 Kohistani and 2,592 listed as others.
“Khanpur Tehsil, Haripur” enters the record as town and union council in Haripur district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Khanpur, Tehsil and Haripur can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6400377. Authority coordinates are 33.804, 72.911. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023.
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