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{{About|the district|its eponymous headquarters|Fazilka}}
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| name = Fazilka district
| official_name =
| settlement_type = [[Districts of Punjab, India|District]]
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| coordinates = {{coord|30.403|N|74.025|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]
| established_title = 
| established_date = 27 July 2011
| founder =
| named_for = Mian Fazil Watoo
| seat_type = Headquarters
| seat = [[Fazilka|Fajilka]]
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| leader_title = [[Deputy Commissioner]]
| leader_name = Arvindpal Singh Sandhu (IAS)
| leader_title1 = [[Senior Superintendent of Police]]
| leader_name1 = Harjeet Singh(IPS)
| unit_pref = Metric
| area_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web |title=Area of Fazilka |url=http://fazilka.gov.in/html/area.html |access-date=2 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303191144/http://fazilka.gov.in/html/area.html |archive-date=3 March 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| area_total_km2 = 3,113
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| population_total = 1,180,483
| population_as_of = 2011
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| website = http://fazilka.gov.in/
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| demographics1_info1 = [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]
| demographics1_title2 = Other
| demographics1_info2 = [[Hindi]] and [[Bagri language|Bagri]]
}}

[[Image:Punjab district map.png|thumb|right|250px|Fazilka and other Districts of Punjab and their headquarters.]]
'''Fazilka district''' is one of new and 23 [[district]]s in the state of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] in [[India]]. The district [[headquarters]] of the Fazilka District are at [[Fazilka]].

==History==

On 27 July 2011, the [[Government of Punjab (India)|Government of Punjab]] created two new districts: Fazilka district by the partition of [[Firozpur district]], and [[Pathankot district]] by the partition of [[Gurdaspur district]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110728/main4.htm|title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News|website=www.tribuneindia.com}}</ref>

On January 29, 1970, Mrs. [[Indira Gandhi|Gandhi]] announced the transfer of a part of Fazilka tehsil and Abohar to [[Haryana]]. The final transfer of Fazilka and Abohar was to take place by January 1975. The transfer to a neighboring State of Punjab's [[cotton]]-producing belt of Abohar and Falzika was not accepted.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.panjabdigilib.org/webuser/searches/downloadPdf.jsp?file=PL-000401.pdf&docid=48207|title=Khalistan the politics of passion|website=panjabdigilib.org|access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref> On January 25, the Mathew Commission said that Abohar and Fazilka tehsils of Punjab could not be transferred to Haryana because they were not contiguous with Haryana's border.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mitra |first1=Sumit |last2=Thukral |first2=Govind |last3=Chawla |first3=Prabhu |title=Rajiv-Longowal accord: Mathew Commission delivers an unexpected anti-climax |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/19860215-rajiv-longowal-accord-mathew-commission-delivers-an-unexpected-anti-climax-800593-1986-02-15 |access-date=8 January 2021 |work=India Today |date=15 February 1986 |language=en}}</ref>

==Location==
It is located next to the border with Pakistan, the border being to its west. It has the district of [[Firozpur]] to its north, [[Sri Muktsar Sahib]] to its east and [[Sri Ganganagar]] to the south and [[Pakistan]] to its west.

==Geography==
It has an extreme climate, with the summers being very hot and the winters being very cold. The River [[Sutlej]] runs through the district and moves over to the Pakistan side through the [[Indo-Pakistani border]].

==Administration==
The district's chief executive is the Deputy Commissioner. The office is held by Sh. Arvindpal Singh Sandhu, IAS.

The district is administratively subdivided into three [[tehsil]]s:
* [[Fazilka]]
* [[Abohar]]
* [[Jalalabad, Firozpur|Jalalabad]]

==Demographics==
According to the [[2011 census of India|2011 census]], Fazilka district has a [[Demographics of India|population]] of 1,180,483.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fazilka.gov.in/html/at_glance.html|title=District Profile at a Glance|access-date=2 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303125533/http://fazilka.gov.in/html/at_glance.html|archive-date=3 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] is the most spoken [[language]] of the district and is spoken by the majority of the population. Also [[Hindi]] is widely spoken by people in this area.

=== Religion ===
[[Hinduism]] and [[Sikhism]] are the main [[religions]] of the Fazilka district. The [[Arora]] community of [[Punjabi Hindus]] constitute a sizeable population in the district. With the migration of the non-Muslim population from Pakistan to India in 1947, they settled here in this region of [[Firozpur district]].

In the Firozpur Religion Census 2011,<ref name="Firozpur District Religion Data - Census 2011">{{Cite web|url=http://www.census2011.co.in/data/religion/district/596-firozpur.html|title=Firozpur District Religion Data - Census 2011|website=www.census2011.co.in}}</ref> 84.97% of the Fazilka tehsil of Firozpur district registered their religion as Hindu and 13.35% registered as Sikh.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Towns in Fazilka District - Firozpur Religion [[2011 Census of India|Census 2011]]<ref name="Firozpur District Religion Data - Census 2011" />
!Towns
!Majority Religion
!Population
!Hindu
!Sikh
!Christian
!Muslim
!Buddhist
!Jain
!Other Religions
!Not Stated
|-
|Fazilka
|Hindu
|76,492
|84.97%
|13.35%
|0.89%
|0.45%
|0.01%
|0.25%
|0.00%
|0.08%
|-
|Abohar
|Hindu
|145,302
|83.27%
|15.62%
|0.42%
|0.45%
|0.06%
|0.12%
|0.01%
|0.05%
|-
|Jalalabad
|Hindu
|39,525
|68.56%
|30.75%
|0.15%
|0.49%
|0.02%
|0.00%
|0.01%
|0.03%
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* [https://fazilka.nic.in/ Official website]

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