Baldia Town () is an administrative sub-division within

Keamari District Keamari District, () is an administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan created on August 21, 2020 after it was carved out of District West Karachi. Baldia Town, SITE Town, Mauripur Town & Keamari Town ended up being part of th ...

Karachi Division Karachi Division () is an administrative division of the Sindh Province of Pakistan created in December 1960. There are seven districts in Karachi Division. CNIC code of Karachi Division is 42. According to 2023 Pakistani census population of ...

Sindh Sindh ( ; ; , ; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind (caliphal province), Sind or Scinde) is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, southeastern region of the country, Sindh is t ...

Province of

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

. Baldia Town lies in the western part of the city with a population of 948,399 as of the

2023 Pakistani census The 2023 Census of Pakistan was the detailed enumeration of the Pakistani population and the seventh national census in the country. It was conducted by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. It was also the first ever digital census to be held in ...

. In 2020,

Kemari District Keamari District, () is an administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan created on August 21, 2020 after it was carved out of District West Karachi. Baldia Town, SITE Town, Mauripur Town & Keamari Town ended up being part of t ...

was carved out of

Karachi West District Orangi District (formerly Karachi West District), () also (Karachi Gharbi کراچی غربی) is an administrative district of Karachi Division, created in 1972. It is located in the western part of Karachi in the province of Sindh, Pakistan ...

, and Baldia Town ended up being part of

Demographics

There are several ethnic groups in Baldia sub-division. Total population of Baldia Sub-Division is 948,399 consists of Males 498,073 & females 450,223 as of

. Languages Religions There are 931,219

Muslims Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

, 14,327

Christians A Christian () is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christians form the largest religious community in the world. The words '' Christ'' and ''C ...

, 2,432

Hindus Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...

, 55

Ahmadiyya Ahmadiyya, officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ), is an Islamic messianic movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed a ...

, 10 scheduled castes, 53

Sikhs Sikhs (singular Sikh: or ; , ) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak. The term ''Sikh'' ...

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Parsis The Parsis or Parsees () are a Zoroastrian ethnic group in the Indian subcontinent. They are descended from Persian refugees who migrated to the Indian subcontinent during and after the Arab-Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century, w ...

& 259 others of total population 948,399 of Baldia sub-division.

Union Committees

Baldia Town 13 Union Committees of Baldia in Town Municipal Corporation

Location

It was bordered by

SITE Town SITE Town (), located in the southern part of Karachi, Pakistan, is named after the Sindh Industrial & Trading Estate. It was established in 2001 under the Local Government Ordinance and subdivided into nine union councils. In 2011, the town s ...

and

Orangi Orangi () is a town in the western part of Karachi, Pakistan, with a population of 596,919 as of the 2023 census. Orangi was developed as a planned settlement in 1972 by the Karachi Development Authority (KDA) to provide affordable housing f ...

to the east and by

Kiamari Town Keamari Town (), () lies in the southern part of Karachi, Pakistan, and was named after the historic seaside municipality of Keamari. Keamari Town was formed in 2001 as part of the Local Government Ordinance 2001, and was subdivided into 11 un ...

to the north and west, with most of the western boundary formed by part of the RCD Highway.

Baldia Railway Station

Baldia railway station

Neighbourhoods

* Abidabad * Afridi Colony * Baldia Colony * Bismillah Chowk * Kumhar Colony * Delhi Colony * Dhoraji Colony * Gujrat Colony *

Gulshan-e-Ghazi Gulshan-e-Ghazi () is a neighbourhood in the Karachi West district of Karachi, Pakistan, that is a part of Baldia Town. There are several ethnic groups in Gulshan-e-Ghazi including Muhajirs, Hindko(Hazara) Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pa ...

* Islamnagar * Ittehad Town * Kokan Colony * Muhajir Camp * Muslim Mujahid Colony * Nai Abadi * Naval Colony * Rasheedabad * Saeedabad * Turk colony

Constituensy

NA-242 Karachi Keamari-I NA-242 Karachi Keamari-I () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan, National Assembly of Pakistan that encompasses Baldia Town, Baldia. Assembly Segments Members of Parliament 2002–2018: NA-241 Karachi-III 2018–2022: NA ...

References

External links

Karachi City website - Archived
Keamari District Towns in Karachi {{Karachi-geo-stub