Bhakkar District (Urdu: ضِلع بهكّر), is a district in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. The district was created out of parts of Mianwali in 1982,[3] and has the city of Bhakkar as its headquarters. Part of its area consists of a riverine tract along the Indus, called Kaccha, while most of the district area lies in the desolate plain of the Thal Desert.[4] The main languages spoken in the district are Saraiki (79.97%), Punjabi (10.18%), Urdu (7.14%), and Pashto (2.33%).[5]
Located in the west of the Punjab province, Bhakkar district is bordered by Layyah to the south, Jhang to the southeast, Dera Ismail Khan to the west, Khushab to the northeast, and Mianwali to the north.
^1998 District Census report of Bhakkar. Census publication. Vol. 74. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.
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^"Bhakkar". Punjab Portal, Government of Punjab websitel. Archived from the original on 6 August 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
^Bhakkar Tahsil - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 8, p. 43
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