Badin District

The Badin District (Sindhi: ضلعو بدين‎, Urdu: ضلع بدین‎) is a district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The total area of the district is 6,726 square kilometers. It had a population of 1,136,636, in 1998, of which 16.42% were urban, according to the Pakistani census taken at the time.

Headquartered at the city of Badin, the district is situated between 24°-5` to 25°-25` north latitude and 68 21’ to 69 20’ east longitude and is bounded on the north by the Hyderabad District, on the east by Mirpurkhas and Tharparkar districts, on the south by the Rann of Kutch, which also forms part of the disputed boundary with India, and on the west by Thatta and Hyderabad districts.

Administration

The district is administratively subdivided into the following talukas:

With the introduction of the devolution system, the talukas have been subdivided into the Union Councils numbering 49, Tapas 109 and Dehs 511.

History

Badin was the center of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. Islam came into the region by 711 CE. The areas remained under the control of the Islamic caliphate until it came under control of the Ghaznavids. In 1592, Sindh came under the direct rule of the Mughal emperors.