Former agency · headquarters Ghalanai · seven tehsils · 553,933 people in 2023 · urban column empty
Mohmand District is one of the 38 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with its headquarters at Ghalanai. It has 7 tehsils: Ambar Utman Khel, Halim Zai, Pindiali, Prang Ghar, Safi, Upper Mohmand and Yake Ghund. The 2023 census counted 553,933 people on 2,296 km², and 31.28% of residents aged 10 and over were literate.
| Name | Type | Population | Area (km²) | Urban | Literacy (10+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambar Utman Khel | Tehsil | 79,455 | 273 | – | 21.71% |
| Halim Zai | Tehsil | 89,149 | 211 | – | 45.18% |
| Pindiali | Tehsil | 112,247 | 454 | – | 29.11% |
| Prang Ghar | Tehsil | 36,046 | 257 | – | 35.46% |
| Safi | Tehsil | 109,620 | 322 | – | 26.21% |
| Upper Mohmand | Tehsil | 63,659 | 513 | – | 21.62% |
| Yake Ghund | Tehsil | 63,757 | 266 | – | 41.38% |
Mohmand sits on the Afghan line north-west of Peshawar. Until 2018 it was an agency. Ghalanai is the headquarters. It is not a municipal city in the 2023 urban lists. The whole district printed as rural. That is the first fact, before any pass story.
Mohmand clans and Safi names are the local map. Pashto is the language. Seven tehsils is a lot of offices for half a million people. Literacy is not the same in each office.
Households 63,973. Population 553,933. Area about 2,296 km². Literacy 31.28 percent — 46.85 percent for men, 15.10 percent for women. Under-tens about 192,000 (35 percent). Sex ratio about 103 men per 100 women.
Pindiali — 454 km², 112,247 people, literacy about 29 percent. Largest count.
Safi — 322 km², 109,620 people, literacy about 26 percent. Second-largest count.
Halimzai — 211 km², 89,149 people, literacy about 45 percent. Highest literacy of the seven. Densest of the printed rows.
Ambar Utman Khel — 273 km², 79,455 people, literacy about 22 percent.
Yake Ghund — 266 km², 63,757 people, literacy about 41 percent.
Upper Mohmand — 513 km², 63,659 people, literacy about 22 percent. Largest land, thin settlement.
Pran Ghar (Pranghar) — 257 km², 36,046 people, literacy about 35 percent. Smallest count.
Halimzai at 45 percent and Upper Mohmand at 22 percent are the same district. A single “Mohmand literacy” sentence hides that.
Degree colleges are new and few. Peshawar is still the exam city for many families. DHQ-level care at Ghalanai is the demand the new district makes. Female literacy at 15 percent is the line that belongs next to any college paragraph. This page is not a border-crossing guide.
Sources: PBS 2023; KP tehsil literacy rows for all seven. September 2026.
Mohmand District has 7 tehsils: Ambar Utman Khel, Halim Zai, Pindiali, Prang Ghar, Safi, Upper Mohmand and Yake Ghund.
The 2023 census counted 553,933 people in Mohmand District, up from 474,345 in 2017 (annual growth 2.63%). 0% of the population lived in urban areas.
Mohmand District covers 2,296 km² according to the 2023 census, a density of 241.26 people per km².
Entirely rural: the 2023 census counted no urban population in Mohmand District, so all 553,933 residents were enumerated in rural areas.
31.28% of people aged 10 and over were literate in the 2023 census (male 46.85%, female 15.1%).
The most common mother tongue in the 2023 census was Pashto (99.8% of the 553,933 people in the mother-tongue table).
Mohmand District is in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Its headquarters is Ghalanai.
Mohmand was a FATA tribal agency until the 25th Constitutional Amendment, signed on 31 May 2018, merged FATA into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is now a district of Peshawar Division. (Dawn)