Pakistan Administrative Divisions / پاکستان

Open dataset of Pakistan's administrative hierarchy — 7 provinces/territories, 160 districts, and 577 tehsils. This repository provides structured, bilingual (Urdu + English) reference data with geographic coordinates and postal codes at every level. Designed for developers, researchers, government agencies, and AI agents.

Licensed under CC-BY-4.0. Browse the hierarchy through GitHub's folder navigation, download aggregate files in JSON/CSV/NDJSON, or integrate directly via raw URLs.

Overview

Item	Details
Province	7
District	160
Tehsil	577
Coordinates	✅ Included (all levels)
Postal Codes	✅ Included (tehsil level)
Formats	JSON, NDJSON, CSV
License	CC-BY-4.0
Last Updated	2026-05-27
Website	openadmindata.org/pk
API	openadmindata.org/api/pk

Browse by Province

#	Province	Districts	Tehsils	Link
1	آزاد کشمیر (Azad Kashmir)	10	32	Browse
2	بلوچستان (Balochistan)	35	103	Browse
3	گلگت بلتستان (Gilgit Baltistan)	14	24	Browse
4	اسلام آباد (Islamabad)	1	1	Browse
5	خیبرپختونخوا (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)	35	153	Browse
6	پنجاب (Punjab)	36	139	Browse
7	سندھ (Sindh)	29	125	Browse

Data Files

File	Format	Description
all-province.json	JSON	All 7 province records
all-district.json	JSON	All 160 district records
all-tehsil.json	JSON	All 577 tehsil records
all-flat.json	JSON	Levels 1-2 flat array
all-flat.ndjson	NDJSON	Streaming format
all-flat.csv	CSV	Spreadsheet format
hierarchy.json	JSON	Nested tree
schema.json	JSON Schema	Data schema

Quick Start

Python

import json

with open("data/all-province.json", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    data = json.load(f)

for r in data:
    print(f"{r['name']['local']} ({r['name']['en']}) — {r['children_count']['district']} districts")

JavaScript

import { readFileSync } from "fs";

const data = JSON.parse(readFileSync("data/all-province.json", "utf-8"));
console.log(`Total: ${data.length} provinces`);

Schema

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Unique identifier
level	integer	1=province, 2=district, 3=tehsil
level_name	object	Level label (local + English)
name.local	string	Name in local script
name.en	string	English name
name.slug	string	URL-safe slug
parent	object/null	Parent division reference
ancestors	array	Full ancestor chain
children_count	object	Count of children per level
zip_codes	array	Postal codes (where available)
geo.lat	string	Latitude (WGS84)
geo.lon	string	Longitude (WGS84)

Full schema: data/schema.json

Hierarchy Browse

divisions/{province-slug}/
divisions/{province-slug}/{district-slug}/

Tehsils are listed inline in each district's README.

AI Integration

• llms.txt — Quick reference for AI agents
• llms-full.txt — Summary with per-province links
• Per-province data — Full data by province

Citation

Pakistan Administrative Divisions Dataset (CC-BY-4.0)
URL: https://github.com/open-admin-data/pakistan-administrative-divisions

See CITATION.cff for machine-readable citation.

License

• Data: CC-BY-4.0

Related

• Open Admin Data — Browse, search and explore administrative divisions for every country
• open-admin-data — GitHub organization with all country repos
• ListBase — Structured reference data for every country