Bannu Division · Marwat plain · 1,040,856 people in 2023 · postal code often listed 28420
Lakki Marwat District is one of the 38 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with its headquarters at Lakki Marwat. The 2023 census lists 4 administrative units in it: Bettani, Ghazni Khel, Lakki Marwat and Sarai Naurang. The 2023 census counted 1,040,856 people on 3,296 km², and 48.47% of residents aged 10 and over were literate.
| Name | Type | Population | Area (km²) | Urban | Literacy (10+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bettani | Sub-division | 35,571 | 132 | – | 31.62% |
| Ghazni Khel | Tehsil | 329,775 | 1,153 | – | 54.29% |
| Lakki Marwat | Tehsil | 341,693 | 1,388 | 20.71% | 50.06% |
| Sarai Naurang | Tehsil | 333,817 | 623 | 9.68% | 42.66% |
Lakki Marwat sits on the southern KP plain between Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan. The district name is the tribe name. Pashto is the language of the tehsil tables (Ghazni Khel’s 2023 row is 326,571 Pashto speakers out of 329,775). Urdu is the school-and-office second language, not a rival mother tongue here.
Unlike Kohat, there is no huge cantonment row. Unlike Kurram, there is no pass town. The story is three large rural tehsils of almost the same population, and one small fourth tehsil on the edge.
Households 131,800. Population 1,040,856. Area 3,296 km². Urban 103,045 (about 10 percent). Rural 927,403. Literacy 48.47 percent — 67.36 percent for men, 28.95 percent for women. Under-tens about 344,000 (33 percent). Sex ratio about 103 men per 100 women. Site: lakkimarwat.kp.gov.pk.
Lakki Marwat municipal council is the main town row (about 70,800 in the 2023 urban size table). Naurang / Sari Naurang town council is the second urban name (about 32,300).
Lakki Marwat tehsil — 1,388 km², 341,693 people, literacy about 50 percent. Headquarters tehsil. Largest area of the four.
Sari Naurang — 623 km², 333,817 people, about 536 per km², literacy about 42.7 percent. Smallest of the three big tehsils by land, densest of all four. Naurang town sits here.
Ghazni Khel — 1,153 km², 329,775 people, literacy about 54.3 percent — highest of the four. The compiled table lists this tehsil as rural. Pashto is nearly the whole tongue row.
Bettani — 132 km², 35,571 people, literacy about 31.6 percent. A thin extra tehsil. Do not treat it as a fifth city.
Those three large tehsils are within about 12,000 people of each other. A page that only describes Lakki town misses two-thirds of the district.
Government colleges sit in Lakki and Naurang. Degree students still ride to Bannu or Dera for professional seats. DHQ Lakki Marwat is the first hospital. THQ-style cover at Naurang is the second name on local lists. Female literacy at 29 percent is the line that belongs next to the college paragraph.
Sources: PBS 2023; tehsil literacy rows; Ghazni Khel tongue table; urban size rows for Lakki MC and Naurang TC. September 2026.
The 2023 census counted 1,040,856 people in Lakki Marwat District, up from 902,138 in 2017 (annual growth 2.42%). 9.9% of the population lived in urban areas.
Lakki Marwat District covers 3,296 km² according to the 2023 census, a density of 315.79 people per km².
The 2023 census lists 2 urban localities in Lakki Marwat District: Lakki Marwat (70,759, municipal committee) and Naurang (32,330, town committee).
48.47% of people aged 10 and over were literate in the 2023 census (male 67.36%, female 28.95%).
The most common mother tongue in the 2023 census was Pashto (99.66% of the 1,036,300 people in the mother-tongue table).
Lakki Marwat District is in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Its headquarters is Lakki Marwat.