Chistian Tehsil ( ur, ) is a

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

located in

Bahawalnagar District Bahawalnagar District (Urdu and pa, ), is a district of Punjab province in Pakistan. Before the independence of Pakistan, Bahawalnagar was part of Bahawalpur state governed by the Nawab of Bahawalpur. The city of Bahawalnagar is the capita ...

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. The city of

Chishtian Chishtian ( ur, ) is a city in Bahawalnagar district in Punjab Province, Pakistan. For administrative purposes, it is a part of the similarly named Chishtian Tehsil. It is the 59th largest city of Pakistan by population. Education * Daanish ...

is the headquarters of the tehsil which is administratively subdivided into 29 Union Councils.Tehsils & Unions in the District of Bahawalnagar - Government of Pakistan
.

Geography

Chishtian Tehsil has an area of 1,500 km².

Adjacent tehsils

Burewala Tehsil Burewala ( ur, ), is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Vehari District in the Punjab province of Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is t ...

, Vehari District (north) * Bahawalnagar Tehsil (northeast) * Haroonabad Tehsil (southeast) * Yazman Tehsil, Bahawalpur District (south) *

Hasilpur Tehsil Hasilpur Tehsil ( ur, ) is an administrative subdivision ( tehsil) of Bahawalpur District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city of Hasilpur is the headquarters of the tehsil which is administratively subdivided into 15 Union Councils. ...

, Bahawalpur District (west) * Vehari Tehsil, Vehari District (northwest)

Demographics

According to the

2017 Census of Pakistan The 2017 Census of Pakistan was a detailed enumeration of the Pakistani population which began on 15 March 2017 and ended on 25 May 2017. It was the first census taken in the country in the 21st century, nineteen years after the previous one in ...

there were 691,221 people living in Chishtian Tehsil and its population in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

was 498,270.

Governance

In June 2016, Tehsil Municipal Administration Chishtian employees staged a sit-in due to two months of non-payment.

References

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