Sindh,Pakistan

 

                                                                     Districts of Sindh, Pakistan

Sindh Urdu: سِندھ‎, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran" and has been given the title of Bab-ul-Islam (The gateway of Islam). The name of Sindh is derived from the Indus River that separates it from Balochistan and the greater Iranian Plateau. This river was known to the ancient Iranians in Avestan as Indus, in Sanskrit as Sindhu, to Assyrians (as early as the seventh century BC) as Sinda, to the Greeks as Indos, to the Romans as Indus, to the Persians as Ab-e-sind, to the Pashtuns as "Abasind", to the Arabs as Al-Sind, to the Chinese as Sintow, and to the Javanese as the Santri.
Sindh is bounded to the west by the Indus River and Balochistan, to the north by Punjab, the east by the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan and to the south by the Arabian Sea. The capital of the province is Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and financial hub. Most of the population in the province is Muslim, with sizeable Christian, Zoroastrian and Hindu minorities. The main language spoken is Sindhi by about 26 million people, while there exists a significant Urdu-speaking minority 8 million.

Origin of the name

The province of Sindh and the people inhabiting the region are named after the river known as the Sindhu before partition and now called the Indus River. In Sanskrit, síndhu means "river, stream", and refers to the Indus river in particular. The Greeks who conquered Sindh in 325 BC under the command of Alexander the Great rendered it as Indós, hence the modern Indus. The ancient Iranians referred to everything east of the river Indus as hind from the word Sindh. When the British arrived in the 17th century, they followed that regional example and applied the name to the entire subcontinent, calling it India, from the word Sindh.

Major cities

List of major cities in Sindh
Rank	City	District	Population	Karachi Hyderabad Sukkur
1	Karachi	Karachi	13,236,886
2	Hyderabad	Hyderabad	2,978,367
3	Sukkur	Sukkur	400,148
4	Larkana	Larkana	322,315
6	Mirpur Khas	Mirpur Khas	219 977
5	Nawabshah	Shaheed Benazirabad	218 361
7	Jacobabad	Jacobabad	164,248
8	Shikarpur	Shikarpur	158,913
9	Tando Adam	Sanghar	123,261
Source: World Gazetteer 2012
This is a list of each city's urban populations and does not indicate total district population

Districts

There are 23 districts in Sindh, Pakistan.

1. Karachi
2. Jamshoro
3. Thatta
4. Badin
5. Tharparkar
6. Umerkot
7. Mirpur Khas
8. Tando Allahyar
9. Naushahro Feroze
10. Tando Muhammad Khan
11. Hyderabad
12. Sanghar
13. Khairpur
14. Benazirabad
15. Dadu
16. Qambar Shahdadkot
17. Larkana
18. Matiari
19. Ghotki
20. Shikarpur
21. Jacobabad
22. Sukkur
23. Kashmore

Other cities and towns of Sindh:

• Bandhi
• Badah
• Dadu
• Daharki
• Diplo
• Ghari Mori
• Ghotki
• Hala
• Jamshoro
• Kashmore
• Khairpur
• Kotri
• Matiari
• Matli
• Mehar
• Mehrabpur
• Mithi
• Moro
• Nasarpur
• Naseerabad
  
• Naushahro Feroze (Padidan)
• Pir Jo Goth
• Raharki
• Ranipur
• Ratodero
• Rohri
• Pano Akil
• Sakrand
• Sanghar
• Sehwan
• Sekhat
• Shahdadkot
• Sita
• Sobhodero
• Sujawal
• Tando Adam Khan
• Tando Allahyar
• Thatta
• Umarkot