Naseerabad District ضلع نصیر آباد
District of Balochistan
Map of Balochistan with Nasirabad District highlighted
Country	Pakistan
Province	Balochistan
Division	Nasirabad
Headquarters	Dera Murad Jamali
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Deputy Commissioner	Muhammad Qasim
• District Police Officer	N/A
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area
• Total	3,387 km2 (1,308 sq mi)
Population  (2017)[1]
• Total	487,847
• Density	140/km2 (370/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)

Nasirabad (Urdu: ضلع نصیر آباد) is a district in the centre-west of Balochistan, Pakistan. The district's headquarters are located at Dera Murad Jamali.

The original name of the district was Temple Dera, named after Captain H. M. Temple,^{[citation needed]} a career British civil servant, who served as the Political Agent for Sibi from 1891 to 1892. Among the local population it is still known as 'Tipul', a corruption of the word 'temple'.^{[citation needed]}

Formerly part of Kalat District, Nasirabad was granted the status of a separate district in 1974, while in 1987 the new district of Jaffarabad was cleaved out of it.^[2] For three years, from July 1987 to December 1990, it was known as Tahseel Tamboo. Tamboo is a small village 40 km west of Dera Murad Jamali.^{[citation needed]}

Administrative divisions

Tehsils

The district is administratively subdivided into four Tehsils, these are:^[3]

• Dera Murad Jamali (district headquarters)
• Chhatter
• Baba Kot
• Tamboo

Union councils

These tehsils are further divided into union councils. Currently, there are 31 union councils and one municipal committee in the district:

Tehsil Dera Murad Jamali

Tehsil Chhatter

Tehsil Tamboo

Tehsil Baba Kot

• Union Council Garhi Rehman
• Union Council Baba Kot
• Union Council Kuhna Tamboo

Tehsil Landhi

Demographics

At the time of the 2017 census the district had 64,302 households and a population of 487,847. Nasirabad had a sex ratio of 939 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 23.30% - 33.22% for males and 12.97% for females. 96,316 (19.74%) lived in urban areas. 192,195 (39.40%) were under 10 years of age.^[1]

At the time of the 2017 census, 39.05% of the population spoke Balochi, 22.89% Brahui, 21.22% Sindhi and 15.21% Saraiki as their first language.^[1]