Lower Chitral District
district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Lower Chitral District (Khowar: موڑی ݯھیترارو ضلع; Urdu: ضلع چترال زیریں) is a district in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Kho people are the dominant ethnic group in the district, and almost 90% of the population speaks Khowar as their mother tongue.
Demographics
As of the 2023 census, Lower Chitral district has 46,028 households and a population of 320,407. The district has a sex ratio of 104.31 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 66.10%: 76.81% for males and 54.77% for females. 87,378 (27.46% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 57,157 (17.84%) live in urban areas.
87.76% of the population speaks languages classified as 'Others', namely Khowar (or Chitrali), the dominant language of Chitral as a whole. Pashto is spoken in the southeast of the district by 9.36% of the population, while Kalasha is spoken by 1.59% of the population. There are some speakers of the Madaklasht dialect, a Persian dialect which is considered a mix of Dari and Tajik.
Ethnic groups
The main ethnic groups in the district are:
Kho people
Gujjar
Kalash
Religion
Administrative Divisions
National Assembly
The district, along with Upper Chitral District, is represented by one elected MNA (Member of National Assembly) in the Pakistan National Assembly.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lower Chitral District” as district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q96694336. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023.
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