Hazara Division · old name Kala Dhaka · headquarters Judba · 200,445 people in 2023 · urban column zero
Torghar District is one of the 38 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with its headquarters at Judba. It has 3 tehsils: Daur Mera, Judba and Khander. The 2023 census counted 200,445 people on 454 km², and 29.74% of residents aged 10 and over were literate.
| Name | Type | Population | Area (km²) | Urban | Literacy (10+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daur Mera | Tehsil | 50,503 | 86 | – | 25.92% |
| Judba | Tehsil | 63,083 | 63 | – | 19.78% |
| Khander | Tehsil | 86,859 | 305 | – | 38.66% |
Torghar is the Black Mountain district on the Indus side of Hazara. Hindko speakers still say Kala Dhaka. The official name is Torghar. It was cut out of Mansehra in 2011 so the mountain had its own deputy commissioner. Judba is the headquarters tehsil. Shangla’s Martung sits across the river. This is not Mansehra city and it is not Battagram bazaar. It is ridge villages and a thin road.
Pashto is the language of the houses. Judba tehsil’s 2023 row is 62,949 Pashto speakers out of 63,083 people. Hassanzai is the clan name tied to Khander. Sixteen union councils appear on local lists.
Households 29,410. Population 200,445. Area in the census table 454 km² (some older notes say about 497). All rural. Literacy 29.74 percent — 46.58 percent for men, 12.46 percent for women. Under-tens about 67,500 (34 percent). Sex ratio about 104 men per 100 women. Site: torghar.kp.gov.pk.
Khander Hassanzai — 305 km², 86,859 people, literacy about 38.7 percent. Largest land and largest count. Highest literacy of the three.
Judba — 63 km², 63,083 people, about 1,000 per km², literacy about 19.8 percent. Headquarters. Smallest land, densest.
Daur Maira (Daur Mera) — 86 km², 50,503 people, literacy about 25.9 percent.
Mansehra and Oghi are the towns people use for a specialist ward and a degree exam. The Indus road and the ridge tracks decide whether a teacher arrives. Government colleges are few. DHQ-level care at Judba is the local demand. Female literacy at 12 percent is the education fact for this district. A girls’ middle school that stays open in winter on the Khander side is the measure, not a mountain photograph.
Sources: PBS 2023; tehsil literacy rows; Judba tongue table; 2011 district notification. September 2026.
Torghar District has 3 tehsils: Daur Mera, Judba and Khander.
The 2023 census counted 200,445 people in Torghar District, up from 171,349 in 2017 (annual growth 2.66%). 0% of the population lived in urban areas.
Torghar District covers 454 km² according to the 2023 census, a density of 441.51 people per km².
Entirely rural: the 2023 census counted no urban population in Torghar District, so all 200,445 residents were enumerated in rural areas.
29.74% of people aged 10 and over were literate in the 2023 census (male 46.58%, female 12.46%).
The most common mother tongue in the 2023 census was Pashto (96.85% of the 200,445 people in the mother-tongue table), followed by Hindko (2.29%).
Torghar District is in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Its headquarters is Judba.